🚀 go-pugleaf

karlon@bnr.ca (Karlon West) writes:

>Jerry Frain (jerry@tivoli.com) wrote:
>> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.Perl.com> writes:
>> >    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.

>Wow! You sure convinced me that this TomC guy really doesn't know of what
>he speaks.

Just because Tom knows what he is talking about doesn't mean that a
gawk refcard and autoconfing gawk aren't fine things [to have the the
FUTURES file], irrespective of whether perl has them or not.

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