On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> <full disclosure>
> I'm a Perl hater
> </full disclosure>
>
> I've ranted before about implementing "standard" tools in Perl.  The
> user experience just isn't the same as with C code.
>
> But even more so than with nl(1), why would we want to use something
> that's different from what everybody else uses?  If we want bzip2 in
> base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should
> simply use the standard bzip2 code.

Seconded.

ciao,
David

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