Re: [MacPerl] OSA Extention for PERL

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 20.28 8/13/97, Michael Schuerig wrote:
>What's the point of OSA-MacPerl? There's more than one, I think:
>
>Perl would be available everywhere. Perl scripts could be used in
>attachable apps ranging from cases as simple as a "Scripts" menu to the
>most complex cases such as FaceSpan which technically is an incredibly
>customizable (through attaching) do-nothing app. It wouldn't matter what
>language a script was written in, be AppleScript, Frontier, or Perl -- as
>long as the interface were the same, i.e the same events would be handled.
>
>The potential for seamless integration. From what I've heard on one of the
>Java lists, Apple aims at integrating Java in a way that JAR-files would be
>treated like ordinary applications. Unfortunately it seems that they're not
>using the OSA-approach for Java, I'll check this on the MRJ list (probably
>another case of Apple inventing the same thing several times: can you say
>Component Mgr, ASLM, CFM?).
>
>Now, how about a similar approach to Perl than with Java? What I have in
>mind is this: Every Java installation has a predefined set of libraries
>available. Applications only have to supply what goes beyond that standard.
>The same could be done with Perl in principle.
>
>Michael

NOTE OF INTEREST: Larry Wall is working on a Perl->Java compiler.

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