[MacPerl] MacPerl FAQ Status

[hal@dtor.com (Hal Wine)]

At 17:26 96-02-29, Bill Brayman wrote:

>> (E.g., I consider all
>> MacPerl5 and CGI information "noise", at the moment anyway.)
>
>Aren't you the Perl FAQ keeper?  I wondered why the FAQ made no mention
>of the difference between MacPerl 4 and 5!  Probably you should retitle
>the FAQ to reflect that.

The FAQ is accurate as of the time it was written.  I haven't had the
time to revise it as I've hoped, so a more accurate title would be
"MacPerl FAQ drafter", not "keeper".

It's still on my "to do" list to update the FAQ, but I can't offer any
time schedule.  If anyone else would like to take over the FAQ, things
would probably happen faster.

>I was sort of assuming that I could use
>Perl 5 now.  Is that not a good assumption?

>From the traffic on both clpm and this list, it looks as if Perl5 &
MacPerl5 are stable for normal cases.  Personally, learning a new
language (which Perl 5 is IMO) is a ways down on my list of things to
learn, so I won't be adopting Perl 5 until I need it.  This means that
anything I'd put in the FAQ about that or CGI stuff will be hearsay.


--Hal
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