On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:46:37 -0700 (PDT) 
 David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> wrote:

 > 	Its a convenient, (in availability and for coding) language.
 > 	I can see not wanting to need perl for reading docs, but for
 > 	generating it seems reasonable... Modulus any licence issues
 > 	maybe?

Well...

There's a sort of versionitis problem w/ perl.  But I guess everyone
uses perl5 these days.

Dunno, even though I like perl (and used to do a LOT of coding in perl
at a previous job), part of me wants to shudder at the thought of putting
it in the tree :-)

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