Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 15:07:40 +0100 From: Ade Lovett <ade@demon.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <E0wv1Js-00008Z-00@genghis.eng.demon.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 09:16:37 %2B0200." <2825.870592597@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >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 ? That's not what anyone is saying at all. Of course perl and tcl should be in our favorite Unix. Just not as core components in the same way that init, getty, sh are core components. They should be handled as packages and ports (in a general sense), outside of the core system that absolutely, positively, definitely needs to be there to have any kind of runnable Unix system. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.
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