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[MacPerl] Perl Power Tools

At 16.10 -0500 1999.03.02, Andy Berkvam wrote:
>  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."
><http://language.perl.com/ppt/>.

At 16:19 -0500 3/2/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
> 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).

At 18:49 -0500 3/2/99, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
> 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.)

And if one has ToolServer? (free, and unlike SourceServer, ToolServer does
not _appear_ to require the rest of MPW, which is nonetheless also free).

Or would Mac::Apps::Launch work as well?  Or Mac::Processes?

That is, if MacPerl were (at last) multi-threaded?

Then again, if one can turn a Perl module into a standalone, could not one
then turn a standalone into a module?

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