Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/2/05, Reid Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Sebastian Rother > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What is it that you wanted to accomplish? > > Just talk ;-) > I know this is just a poke, but it does bring up a point about an amb

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Sebastian Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. > Now I'm interested into learning another > Scripting-Language. > > I can't decide between Perl and Python. > Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. > Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatib

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Jimmy Scott
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:02:32PM -0500, Jason Crawford wrote: > On 12/2/05, Jimmy Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: > > > I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. > > > Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-La

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Crawford
On 12/2/05, Miod Vallat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.perl.com/download.csp#srclic > > > It is NOT gpl'ed. > > > > According to this: > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > it is GPL'd. > > According to this

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Juan Jose Natera
Hi, >> > Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. [snip] >> It is NOT gpl'ed. [snip] >According to this: >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup >it is GPL'd. Well actually you're both kind of right, it's either GPL or Artisticly

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Miod Vallat
> > http://www.perl.com/download.csp#srclic > > It is NOT gpl'ed. > > According to this: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > it is GPL'd. According to this very same file, it is not. It is dual-licensed, which is VERY dif

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Darrin Chandler
Jimmy Scott wrote: I advice to learn both, you can browse the Python tutorial in one day, and Perl shouldn't be any harder if you learn it from the supplied documentation 'perldoc perl' and 'perldoc perlintro' it a good start. I second that. Also, as with most any language, they each have st

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Crawford
On 12/2/05, Jimmy Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: > > I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. > > Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. > > > > I can't decide between Perl and Python. > > Perl has a l

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:27:34AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Perl has been around 'forever', .. is very useful for a ton of sysadmin > applications (a good reason for it to be in base), .. has a lot of good > support (a la class libraries & interfaces), .. but it's NOT true OO (which > has

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread knitti
if you intend to write anything other than some system maintenance scripts, chose python. its code is better maintainable _by design_, and you'll have it easier to express abstract concepts. its way to epress object orientation is very powerful, and imho far superior to the java-like approach (java

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Jimmy Scott
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: > I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. > Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. > > I can't decide between Perl and Python. > Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. > Python on the other hand is under

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 06:14 PM 12/2/2005 +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatible License and has less modules. I would like to know some "facts" why Perl is in the base system on a BSD even Pyt

Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Sebastian Rother
I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatible License and has less modules. I would like to know some "fa