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Re: Working Group Proposal

From:
Kurt D. Starsinic
Date:
July 25, 2000 08:02
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
20000725105444.C16172@O2.chapin.edu
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:46:22PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> I'll just say that "I disagree". I don't think you should EVER have 
> to recompile your perl binary to get something a program author 
> thought would be available in THEIR perl binary.
> 
> A perl program should work "anywhere" unless the end-user has 
> explicitly removed functionality from his/her perl-binary.

    Think embedded systems.  Think handhelds.  Think bleeding-edge
experimentation.  Think Penguin.  Think Safe.  Think Different.

    Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar@orientation.com) ---------- Senior Network Engineer *
|      `. . . we don't look down on people for using subsets of Perl.       |
|       There are certainly enough of them.' -- Larry Wall                  |




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