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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Perl References: <DJEHtG.9o@ritz.mordor.com> <4aghr0$3bi@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Mordor International Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:06:55 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DJFDvJ.DJw@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 23 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 -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451