Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl)) Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 89 06:40:50 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <5261@omepd.UUCP> <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com's message of 28 Nov 89 04:26:01 GMT >>>>> On 28 Nov 89 04:26:01 GMT, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) said: Rahul> Here's why I didn't install Perl when it first appeared on Rahul> Usenet: The volume of patches. I like software that is stable, Rahul> and Perl didn't seem to be. It's too painful to keep updating Rahul> a program. It's nicer to have all the bugs fixed before you Rahul> install the program. That stage never seemd to arrive for Rahul> Perl. I'm using a very old version of it with no problems. $Header: perly.c,v 2.0 88/06/05 00:09:56 root Exp $ Patch level: 0 Just having and older version doesn't stop you from using perl. -- Rodney Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com