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Re: RH4.0 arrived - some thoughts:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Sun Nov 10 20:17:20 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 01:46:35 +0100 (MET)
From: RHS Linux User <andreas@ag.or.at>
To: Tim Baverstock <warwick@mmm.co.uk>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610311229.MAA11277@weasel.mmm.co.uk>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Tim Baverstock wrote:
> I had no problems with installation from CD, apart from trying to decide
> how large my partitions should be, which wasn't RH's fault at all.
>
> * Perl should probably be reclassified from a text utility to a language.
Why? I know the standard classification is as a language, but actually it's
defined as the best of sed, awk, shell, ... At least sed/awk qualify as
text utilities, and shell scripting is rather a poor general language.
So IMHO the classification as a text utility seems rather a well choosen
one :)
Andreas
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