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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.180712.4668@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:07:12 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <1992Nov13.022712.16069@twg.com>
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- From the keyboard of "David Herron" <david@twg.com>:
-
- : Perl is more like what I said about Basic-Plus above. It's large
- : and while it can be embedded, it looks hard to do so.
-
- Perl5 is embeddable. See the recent Perl FAQ or mail me.
-
- :- TCL is not subject to the GNU Public Liscense (GPV) while Perl is.
-
- No, it's not, actually. There's a different license available for it,
- called the Artistic License, which comes in its src directory.
-
- --tom
-