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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:52:50 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: To pick a (perl) fight!
Message-ID:  <199603140852.JAA00828@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603132305.XAA28625@tees> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 13, 96 11:05:25 pm

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As Paul Richards wrote:

>  Given that the momentum is very much against switching to perl 5
> (for this and similar reasons) I think we'd stay more compatible
> with the rest of the world sticking with perl 4 for the moment.

Follow comp.lang.perl (which should better be named comp.lang.cgi
mostly :), and mention that you are still running Perl 4.  You'll see
the word ``obsolete'' in reply...

Btw., i've got Perl4 scripts that core-dumped the original perl 4,
while running fine under /usr/local/bin/perl.

I'm all for switching, and fixing what might become broken.  If we
never start, we'll never arrive.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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