[MacPerl] port of code to MacPerl

["Wm. L. Scheding" <wls@oculus.jsei.ucla.edu>]

I'm converting some perl code to run on my Mac, using MacPerl.
It's a thousand lines of Perl4 to take a mail digest and build web
pages.  I'm sure this has already been done, but then what would I do 
in my spare time?

Beyond the obvious like change '/' to ':' and remove the fork(); I 
didn't have to change much.

I have two observations to make.

1) This is a very fine job of porting the perl environment to the
Macintosh platform. My hat is off to all of you.

2) The performance and stability of MacPerl is very good.  I run the
'big job' on a Power Tower/225MHz. with 128 Meg of ram.  No small
machine.  It runs in about a half hour -- about the same wall
clock time as my former Sun beaste, but at a fraction of the cost.

Check out the pages at 

http://ophthalmos.jsei.ucla.edu/wls/bmw-digests/index.html

Be kind it's only a Mac II.  :)

Bill Scheding

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