pixman and perl

[John Taylor]

Dan wrote:
> Interesting.
> 
> Personally, I don't like Python. That is to say, I've learned a bit of
> Python, and I don't like programming in it. But as Python is used by my
> distribution's package management system ( Gentoo ), I have Python
> installed on my system, and I've never really thought more about it.
> 
> What did Perl do to you anyway? Just curious.

It may seem strange, but I don't like perl because of the way it must be 
installed. As far as I remember, it has not a configure script and a 
makefile. Also, I prefer my system to be made of packages written in as 
few languages as possible, possibly C only.