Re: [MacPerl] The Perl Usage Survey Continues...

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 02.59 -0500 1998.12.03, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
>>Interesting, but not all that surprising.  MacPerl has been around for
>>several years and is a mature implementation.  Windoze Perls are still
>>in pretty poor shape (or so I'm told :-).
>
>While I just adore my iMac (and oh boy do I love this thing! hug it? hack
>it? hug it? hack it?), let's not be unfair. ActiveState is doing a fine job
>as far as I can tell (ODBC support, OLE support, a debugger, ISAPI Perl,
>PerlScript, PerlEx, etc.). I'm willing to be corrected though if the
>persuasion comes with some facts.

Well, some of that IMO is not really that great.  Some of it seems to be
really cool.  Regardless, perl itself on Windows is pretty stable, by all
accounts (now that it is really in the core), and it seems to integrate
nicely with web servers on NT, which is more than can be said about
MacPerl.  I do think that MacPerl seems to have better interfaces to the OS
API, but that may be changing.  It helps that ActiveState has a business
going, and Matthias is but one unpaid man.

Anyway, I would have no qualms recommending perl for use on Windows,
provided the person had to use Windows, and if doing command line work the
person got a proper shell to use instead of the standard DOS shell.

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