From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 20:14:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20125 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20110 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id FAA12669; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 05:14:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id FAA17224; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 05:03:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18043; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:49:18 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:49:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199606242149.XAA18043@plm.xs4all.nl> From: Peter Mutsaers To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 (CST)) Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 (CST), Michael Smith >> said: MS> Peter Mutsaers stands accused of saying: me> Do these really warrant that perl4 (in the future perl5, which me> is much bigger?) is part of the base OS? MS> The justification for having tools like perl and Tcl in the MS> base system is their fundamental utility, not their necessity MS> as interpreters for other parts. MS> Is 'bc' used by anything else, for example? Yet it's a useful MS> thing to have. So is perl, so is Tcl, so are a number of MS> other things. But bc, like sh, awk etc. are part of standard Unix (Posix) and thus can expected to be everywhere. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Memento Mori plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands |