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

[Tom Christiansen]

>Remove socket functions from core

Why?  What is the justification?  I can think of some, but you 
haven't given them.

In general, the misplaced zealotry to strip Perl down into someting
where nothing is predefined is hardly a good investment.  It's not
like it will make anything appreciably smaller or faster, as previous
studies have already proven.  There's no need to have Perl become
a language with merely seven keywords and everything else requires
loading a million libaries for.  You have but to look at Forth or
Tcl or Python for how much that is.  Perl has always had a lot
of functionality predefined.  Why would you want to break that??

--tom