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

[Tom Christiansen]

>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.  

--tom