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Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl shared lib?



At 4:58 AM 5/8/96, Peter Folk wrote:
>I was thinking about how nice it would be to have little perl plug-ins to
>a number of programs that I use (BBEdit, Eudora, the new Navigator Gold
>editor), and I started thinking about what kind of effort this would take.
>It doesn't seem that it would be all that much.
>
>I have a dream... A dream of a MacPerl shared library.  It would have a
>really simple API, and not require much effort on the part of the app
>programmer, and I have no idea if it would be easy to do on the MacPerl
>end.  I see the API as follows:
>
>

A better idea might be a plugin which implements an Apple event interface
for MacPerl. It would be much smaller and would have to be recompiled with
every new version of MacPerl.

later,

---Dave---

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