Re: Initial LSB activities

[Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>]

> I'd like to see Perl, Python, and Tcl all be in the base (even though I
> no longer use Perl or Tcl myself).  These scripting languages are increasingly
> important for applications; I think a reference system lacking them would
> be seriously crippled.

The problem we raised with perl is that its API is incredibly unstable,
and the truth is I dont think even Larry Wall could define the API changes
between 5.003 5.004 and 5.005

All of them subtley broke my web scripts

Alan