[MacPerl] Trendy MacPerl

[riechert@miyako.japanologie.kultur.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Marcel Riechert)]

Cool!!!
MacPerl seems to become more and more trendy. If Netscape tells
the world that MacPerl is better than Apple Script then there must
be some truth in it:-)

Wouldn't it be a good idea, if ptf's MacPerl Pages could document such free
"advertisements". (In my humble opinion that would be more interesting 
than the Usenet anouncements which are already there)

Andreas Marcel

>Newsgroup: netscape.public.mozilla.builds
>Subject: [Mac] Announcment: Mac Build System Change Completed
>From: Chris Yeh <cyeh@netscape.com>
>Date:1998/05/28
>
>
>What's changing?
>==============
>The Macintosh Mozilla build system has changed to a perl based system.
>Additionally, the new
>build system will relies on a "distribution" area for its headers.  The
>current build system that uses AppleScript will cease to function after
>the switchover.
>
[snip]
>Why the changes?
>============
>The change to a perl based build system gives us a number of
>advantages.  Namely:
>
>* The perl scripts are text files which can be easily merged, as
>opposedto binary AppleScript Applets..
>* Perl is a more accessible scripting language, spoken by more computer
>people.
>* Perl allows us greater flexibility with regards to build
>configuration.  Build configuration can be as easy as changing a
>variable or calling perl functions.
>* Perl is faster.
[snip]


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