Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:49:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <199606242149.XAA18043@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <199606240432.OAA20000@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 %2B0930 (CST))
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>> On Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:02:18 +0930 (CST), Michael Smith
>> <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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.
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