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From: evans@decvaxdec.com (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl
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Date: 27 Jun 90 17:23:15 GMT
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In article <15610@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
|> If a few vendors started shipping Perl binaries with their
|> OS releases, it'd become a standard in months..

You may be glad to know that I am doing all that I can to get DEC to provide
perl on the unsupported tape that comes with ULTRIX. This tape has historically
contained many publicly available programs (sources and/or binaries), including
GNU stuff and even Larrys' rn. I'll let you know when everthing is in place...

- Marc
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