Re: OT unix was [MacPerl] Perl Shared Library (was Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds)

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

Vicki wrote:

> Crashes are more frequent under MacOS than under *nix, yes.

I'm not sure I agree with this... at least, not completely. 

The big difference between a crash on a PC and a crash on a
unix box is that the PC generally requires a warm restart to
recover. The unix system usually just exits, generates a core
dump, and carries on. It's not uncommon to find dozens of core
dump files scattered about a unix disk, especially when there's
software development going on. Granted, this is more graceful,
but it comes at a price.

In general, however, I think you're probably right, but it's
more a function of the quality of the software... most people
that are writing sophisticated applications for unix have
invested quite a bit of money in getting the software to a
robust state, of course at an expense to the user. I only
know of one software application that had a sophisticated
user interface and looked a lot like a typical Macintosh
application, and was available at a comparable price to it's
Macintosh counterpart (I won't mention any nameZ, but a version
of the product was available for the Macs and PCs). I found this
product to crash in unix just as frequently as it did on the Mac.
Compare this to unix applications that I've paid $100K for, that
never crash... Moral - you get what you pay for???


> But crashes under MacOS are no more frequent with MacPerl
> runnning than not. At least in my experience.

One of the things that I'm most impressed with about MacPerl,
and I should have thanked Matthias for it sooner... I've
never had MacPerl crash... and I've done some pretty 'stoopid'
stuff with it. Thanks, Matthias! Good work!

jay

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