Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[Larry Wall]

Tom Christiansen writes:
: >Hard things should be easy, easy things should be trivial. We should try
: >to keep the stuff that is commonly used in the core (excluding OS
: >dependent stuff, perhaps? Non-Unix folks don't see the use for getpwent(),
: >for instance). 
: 
: That's their problem.  Perl is extremely useful to Unix systems
: programmers and administrators.  They are the target audience
: that Perl was initially written for, whom it was made famous by,
: and you will find that it continues to be very important to us.
: If you relegate us to take a back seat behind a mob of Billduhs,
: then you have betrayed your history and really pissed a lot of
: people off.  

Please don't monger these fears.

I am a Unix systems administrator.  I don't see much of a problem
leaving getpwent in the core language but out of the core implementation.
The issue of preserving the semantics of one-liners is a known
design constraint.

We are now beating a dead unicorn.  Please move it to the -language list.

Larry