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Date:      Sun, 03 Aug 1997 09:16:37 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
Message-ID:  <2825.870592597@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 14:51:02 %2B0800." <199708030651.OAA15779@spinner.dialix.com.au> 

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I wonder how many of you whould have written similar to
argue against the inclusion of awk, sed, yacc, lex & csh,
using the very same arguments, in earlier days of unix ?

Tcl and perl represent a significant development in programming,
and you guys argue that they should not be in our favourite 
state-of-the-art UNIX ?

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
whois: [PHK]                | phk@tfs.com           TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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