Re: [MacPerl] beginner needs book recommendation and advice

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
} At 16.10 -0500 1999.03.02, Andy Berkvam wrote:
} >On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
} >
} >> (One word of warning: since these books are written by Unix users,
} >> some of the examples won't work as is under MacPerl.)
} >>
} >  I just found out about the Perl Power Tools project.  To quote the web
} >page, "Our goal is quite simply to reimplement the classic Unix command
} >set in pure Perl, and to have as much fun as we can doing so."  Looks like
} >this project will allow most "backticked" commands to work on most (all?)
} >platforms that perl can run on, including Macs.  Find more info at
} ><http://language.perl.com/ppt/>.

Backticked commands use shells on the OS's where they work generally,
I believe.  This isn't going to allow more than what Matthias has
already implemented to be run like `this` under the MacPerl
applciation.  (The situation will be different under MPW, where the
ppt's might be of some use.)

} 
} Well, with some serious modifications, in some cases.  Make no mistake,
} these programs will be command line programs meant to be run in a shell and
} sometimes a terminal app or console.  Some will even call out to other
} programs (like awk, which calls a2p, the awk to perl translator).

In other words, they're for people who don't need them.  I've never
seen the point, aside from the fun factor.  Although I am looking
forward to seeing if they can write rogue in perl :-)

} 
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