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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Perl Date: 11 Dec 1995 06:07:28 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4aghr0$3bi@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <DJEHtG.9o@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <DJEHtG.9o@ritz.mordor.com>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: >I was just wondering why version 4 of perl is still >included with FreeBSD. Seems like it would make more >sense to only include the later version (5.001m?). It wouldn't, actually. First off, many scripts continue to work only with PERL 4. Going unilaterally to PERL 5 would break a number of things. Second, I think I'd like to wait until *at least* 5.002 before staking everyone's fates on it, doncha think? :-) Jordan