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

[David Turley <dturley@binary.net>]

Rich Morin wrote:

> That could well be.  All I know is what I see go by on USENET and a few
> mailing lists.  Maybe Windoze Perl is in great shape; anyone know?

At the risk of getting kicked out of the Mac fraternity, I'll put in my
2 cents. I use Win32 perl fairly regularly, for several reasons. No macs
at work, PC laptops are cheaper :-) (I know, you get what you pay for),
and, being lazy, I've not installed MPW, so win32 perl allows me to more
easily test out various modules using dmake to install them.

(Hey, I am still devoting some 15 megs of web space for the MacPerl
archive.)

That said, I think AS is _finally_ starting to get it together. With
their latest build they've gone back to a more normal directory
structure, you can finally specify a user-defined directory when running
make (dmake or nmake). I haven't run into problems using the 'perl part
of their perl.' There still seem to be numerous problems with
Perlscript. Most of the posts to the win32 mailing list involve problems
people have getting IIS to work with perl, ISAPI, and other
non-core-perl stuff.  (You can get win32 Apache running in about 10
minutes, I don't understand the attraction to IIS.)

AS still needs some help keeping their module repository up-to-date.
Modules that need compiling can be installed from this repository using
their perl package manager.

When AS first released 5.005.02 it, well, sucked. There were many
complaints and calls for Sarathy to do another release. Since then
they've started listening. And  now that they've snagged Sarathy, things
can only get better, right?

Well, that's my 2 cents. We're concerned with perl advocacy, yes?

Writing this begs another question. Is it Perl or perl? :-)
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 American people, he should resign."

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