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From: mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: reverse foo('bar')
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Date: 22 Jan 91 17:56:02 GMT
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In article <119431@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Hell, perl is already half as big as emacs.

Bigger than that even, if you compare perl to the 'temacs' program
containing no dumped lisp code.  I wonder if some people with undumped
perl executables would care to comment on their size? :-)

And frankly, I'm just waiting to see someone take advantage of the
usub stuff and write 'pmacs'... (or would that be 'eperl'? :-)

>Hey, didja hear Wallman has replaced /vmunix with vmunix.pl?
>Hey Larry, when are you gonna start the WNU project?

Maybe it's time to put uperl.o in the shared library? :-)
--
Mike Haertel <mike@stolaf.edu>
"He's a tie with the ambition to become a full-blown suit." -- Jon Westbrock