[MacPerl] We need more evangelism...

[Georg_Bauer@muensterland.org (Georg Bauer)]

In article <v03102812b1d6c47c4273@mac2.cfcl.com>, vlb@cfcl.com (Vicki
Brown) wrote:

>it would never have occurred to me that Perl would have a reasonable
chance
>of building out of the box for an Amiga.  Or DOS.  Or Windows, or VMS.
None
>of which are Unix.

Sure it does. Amiga reproduces a quite useable Posix environment. On
Windows, you use GNU-win32, a "Unix-emulation". DOS uses DJGPP. VMS is a
known constant in the porting area. The Mac really is a problematic
platform in those regards, as it's posix support is far from complete.

>From all weird systems, the Mac is one of the weirdest - at least if you
do porting work from Unix to the Mac. Actually I have high respect for
Matthias for doing his work on MacPerl.

bye, Georg

PS: As a side note, there is _one_ platform in there that is a surprise
for me: DOS. Up until now there was no official DOS port, only the OS/2
port that was useable for DOS, too (and a hacked port based on Borlands C
compiler). The move to directly support DOS in the core makes me quite
happy, as one of my production systems still runs that beast. And a more
featurefull implementation will make me even more happy :-)

-- 
"Sicher ist, das nichts sicher ist. Aber selbst das nicht."
 - Ringelnatz

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