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
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket fun... David Corbin
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket fun... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket... Uri Guttman
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from c... Joe McMahon
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions fr... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions fr... Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket function... Larry Wall
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions fr... Larry Wall
- core wars (was Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove ... Uri Guttman
- Re: core wars (was Re: RFC 146 (v1... Dan Sugalski
- RE: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core Lipscomb, Al
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core Benjamin Stuhl
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from c... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions fr... Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core Benjamin Stuhl