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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: The book's here; where's Perl 4.0?
Message-ID: <11253@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 31 Jan 91 20:46:07 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.173257.4052@arnor.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1991Jan31.173257.4052@arnor.uucp> clarke@arnor.uucp writes:
: I received "THE BOOK" yesterday .... it has a 'one hump dromedary' on
: the cover ( from the colophon.  It's also known as a camel ).  The 
: binding is in hot pink ...

Whatever it is, it has one hump and an attitude.

Looks more like hot purple to me.

: Is perl 3.0 @ pl44 equivalent to 4.0?

More or less.  There are a few differences in 4.0, but it's mostly going
to be a repackaging.  I expect to have a beta out within a few days, and
the real thing out a week after that.

Larry