🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.Perl.com> writes:

>I enclose that FUTURES file as an attachment, with commentary.  I just
>don't understand: Why would anyone want to spend so much of their life
>(incompatibly) re-inventing the wheel (not to mention when their final 
>creation will still be mere training wheels)?

>    For 2.16
>    ========
>    x	Move to autoconf-based configure system.

>Perl does this (although it uses its metaconfig's Configure)

That's not a reason to prefer perl over gawk, even if I liked
metaconfig over autoconf (and I don't).

>    Do a reference card

>Perl already has this.

Whew!  Now there's a compelling reason to stop maintaining gawk, and
switch to perl, instead.  Wow, where do I sign up?

Disclaimer: I really like perl, more so than awk, I just despise poor
            arguments (like the ones above) for switching to someone
            else's favorite tool.

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