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Re: perl is offensive



Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:37:30PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > Manoj tells me he has proposed sanitising debian by ridding it of
> > perl.  This email is to second his proposal.
 
> I am happy that people got a clue now and will use guile as the
> system script language.

There are better schemes out there than guile.  Mzscheme comes to
mind.  And in any case, it will never be a useful language as long as
their motto is "there is more than one way to do it" - the key
difference from perl is that they are talking about implementing the
basic language - there are 10's of scheme interpreters out there, and
very few *libraries of useful code*.

BTW, I vote for Tcl or elastiC:-)

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