Re:[MacPerl] Perl asynchrinosity and usefulness as CGI development platform

[pudge@pcix.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 7:35 10/11/96, Bob Dalgleish wrote:
>>>I'm scared of Unix.. And the thought of surrenduring to NT makes me wanna
>>>gag..
>>
>>Learn UNIX.  It isn't that hard.  Fact is that Macs don't multitask (yet).
>>When they do, they will be better.  But they don't, and they won't until at
>>least late next year.  I hear Sys 7.6 (due on January) might improve
>>backgroun operation, but it still isn't multitasking.
>
>Even when Macs get protected memory and preemptive multitasking, they still
>won't get processes in the sense that Unix and NT provide.  Restricting
>multiple processes to require OSA-compliance was a disastrous mistake, as
>they are starting to find out.

Well, the OS is getting completely rewritten, so who knows what will happen?

Although, I still think that UNIX will always be a superior
multi-user/server environment.  MacOS is a personal computing OS, and UNIX
is not.  Frankly, I think that everyone who wants to do CGI scripting,
especially in Perl, should learn UNIX.  It not only increases your
understanding of Perl, but it also gives you access to what, for some
purposes, is a superior OS.


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perl -e 'srand();if(rand>.5){$i=0;foreach(@ARGV){@$i=split(//);$z
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{foreach(@$_) {print}print" ";$_++}}else{print(join(" ", @ARGV))}
print"\n"' McClellan Clan Motto: Think On

Chris Nandor                                       pudge@pcix.com
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