Ted Lemon says:
> On the other hand, you can't make that argument for perl.   There's a
> good, solid reason for wanting perl in the base distributiun: if it's
> there, I can use it to write install scripts.   If it's not, I can't.

Ditto. Perl isn't a luxury any more -- its a basic tool. If just one
thing could be installed by default, I'd make it Perl.

Perry