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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl-Users Digest #552, "COPS in perl", newsgroup use
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Date: 9 Jan 91 01:50:34 GMT
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|>successful. Just as things having nothing to do with the TeX language
|>per se are fair game for TeXHAX, most of the postings currently crammed
|>into comp.lang.perl would find a new home in a PUG mailing list. If and
	1) Is *anybody* other than Mr. Bernstein upset with the
plethora of examples of perl code that appear in comp.lang.perl? Perl
is not (yet) as widely coded for in C; your example of a PD clone of
Man in C is specious - the implementation in perl is the *first*
implementation of man in perl. We *need* these examples at this early
stage in the growth of the language, so people have places to start
stealing code from :-)
	2) I see this as the Perl-Users mailing list, with similar
semantics to TeXHaX. Perhaps there's some confusion about the use of a
newsgroup? perhaps it should be comp.perl? and if you care that much,
a "call for discussion" followed by a "call for votes" is the
conventional USENT method for determining these things...
	3) I've had "re-implement KUANG in perl" on my TODO list for a
while... please count me in on the COPS discussion.
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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