Re: [MacPerl] Whither MacPerl?

[David Turley <dturley@pobox.com>]

In message "[MacPerl] Whither MacPerl?", Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

>David Turley <dturley@pobox.com> writes:

>>It is somewhat disheartening, given the
>>usual one-up that the Mac usually has over wintel, that it lags when it
>>comes to perl.
>
>Sorry, but this is a criticism that I cannot accept in this form. Until quite
>recently, AFAIK, you had the pick between a WinPerl which did OLE and one
>which
>did sockets, but you couldn't have both.

Perhaps I was somewhat obtuse. I am refering to the cross-platform-ish-ness
aspects and cpan module usage. But then again, when it comes to
cross-platform interoperabilty, the mac is usually the odd man out anyway.

No criticism of the macperl efforts was intended. :-)

cheers,

david

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May 26, 1805
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