Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Kevin K. Lewis
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 14:08

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In article <396kes$d4p@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

   Surely not.

   It's funny that GNU *ALREADY* distributes Perl, a perfectly fine scripting
   language, and about one order of magnitude finer now that version 5.0 is
   released.  I'll forgive them that they may not have examined it closely, 
   given its recent advent.

I don't find it odd at all.  GNU is partially about choice.  The idea
that you can choose the environment you want.  If you like Perl, use
it.  If people like it enough, there may be a Perl->GNU Extension Lang
compiler, so that you can write your extensions in Perl.

It's still nice to standardize, though.  And I think RMS' proposal is
a standard full of choices.
--
Kevin K. Lewis               | My opinions may be unreasonable
lewikk@aud.alcatel.com       | but such is the voice of inspiration

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From: lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis)
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
Date: 02 Nov 1994 14:08:56 GMT
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