Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:09:33 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, keithl@wakko.gil.net, chat@freebsd.org, config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) Message-ID: <199701230009.TAA18836@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <14442.853848804@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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>> No perl? I like it but I admit it's too fat :-) (my second favourite >> is C/Tk). > Well, I hate to admit that BSDI went the perl route and so far they > seem to really like it. They did, somehow, manage to get a kernel and > a single perl interpreter onto an installation floppy but damned if I > know how they did it. Perhaps they're using a specially hacked and > trimmed down version of perl, something which would be pretty evil > for us but is a *possibility* I suppose. :-) Although this is an HP9000 running an unknown version of perl: kropotkin$ ls -al perl -rwxrwxr-x 1 joelh staff 630784 Jan 22 19:04 perl kropotkin$ gzexe perl perl: 64.5% kropotkin$ ls -al perl -rwxrwxr-x 1 joelh staff 223980 Jan 22 19:05 perl > version which supports dynamic loading of modules is already in our > tree. To get that with PERL we'd have to import perl5 instead of > perl4, and that's a political battle which I don't care to fight at > this time at all. :-) Sorry, not with you. What are the issues? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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