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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
February 7, 2000 14:50
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
4.3.0.33.0.20000207175552.0257ee90@24.8.96.48
At 03:48 PM 2/7/00 -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >My (vague) objections to inclusion are based on expectations that
> >gethostname() will be almost always present, but will return junk
> >(thing you would not able to use in your application anyway) on most
> >systems in existence...
>
>This "most systems in existence" line is a red herring.
>*MOST* systems in existence are useless.
And a damn shame, too. So whatever did happen to that Atari 2600 port of
perl? :)
Dan
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