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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Perl
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:06:55 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: 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? :-)

Sounds reasonable to me.  :-)

Regards,

Chris

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