Dave Cross <d...@dave.org.uk> wrote: > Quoting Chris Benson <chr...@ccandc.org>: >> Back before there were modules: the earliest version I used (3.something) >> came with *2p utilities that were useful in their own right and enabled >> bootstrapping knowledge from find, sed and especially in my case awk: > > Weren't those utilities only removed from Perl in the last couple of years?
a2p and s2p are still in blead today, and I'm not aware of a concrete plan to move them out to CPAN. But there were several Perl 4-era libraries (getopt.pl, open2.pl, etc) that got removed from core in 5.16, and now live on CPAN in Perl4::CoreLibs. -- Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/