Hmmm, i believe this was the first public mention of the change. The only mention of why is to be '...in line with industry-wide practice...'

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html?page=6

And as for Microsoft ... that is not change ... that is marketing! @#$@#$!! !#@$#@$!

jeffa

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