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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self-generated FUD.

From:
Tom Horsley
Date:
June 20, 2006 05:30
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self-generated FUD.
Message ID:
1150806591.17350.4.camel@tweety
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:38 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> What some people consider critical core functionality is considered
> unnecessary bloat by others. 

Yep. I would never in a million years have moved all the unicode
stuff into the core. I never use it, and it makes perl take
almost an order of magnitude longer to build.

But then if I did need it some day, I'd be irritated it
wasn't there (and there are certainly a lot of users
who do need it).




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