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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:26:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src Makefile.inc1 src/usr.bin/vi Makefile src/usr.bin/tclsh Makefile src/lib/libtcl Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980905172535.4380A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <xzpogsucl96.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>

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On 5 Sep 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> For the record, I consider Perl bloat as well, but it's useful and
> well established (there are 14 Perl scripts in (/usr)?/s?bin), so I
> won't groan too loudly.

Awk and Sed are the bloat here, not Perl.  Unfortunately, they're
too engrained for historical reasons.


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