From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 16:28:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22653 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:28:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22648 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA26057; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:56:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611250026.KAA26057@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Nov 22, 96 07:18:41 pm" To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:56:21 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@mt.sri.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Hancock stands accused of saying: > > Python is more useful to me than Perl. I'd rather see Python go into the > base than Perl. Python has less bloat, is a prettier language, is > stable, and stress-tested (see infoseek). You're the first person to ask for Python in the base system. There have been hundreds of feet on the Perl road over the last year or so. Supply and demand, I guess you could say. > Of course, we don't want to have a base w/o a Java VM too. Everyone else > has plans to include one. *shrug* If Java really takes off, rather than becoming the next interpreted COBOL, and a decent interpreter comes along, then it would be remiss of us not to dump the compiler and all our other interpreters and... No, wait, that's Solaris. > Mike -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[