RE: [MacPerl] MPW - how many use?

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

I thought I'd throw in an alternate opinion.

I almost never use MPW. I avoid it as much as possible. I like the editor
and loathe the "almost feels like Unix" aspects.  I have MPW installed, but
I try not to run it. (ToolServer, now... that's cool. And I could learn to
like SourceServer; not as much as RCS but close).

I do all of my MacPerl coding from BBEdit (which handles > 32K files, has
text coloring, etc., and DOESN'T take up the 25MB of disk space I need for
MPW :-)

I'm basically a Unix-o-phile at heart and thus I never could quite
appreciate MPW and its almost-make, almost-sed, almost...interface. If I
need a command line, I switch to a telnet window or maybe open MachTen. At
least my fingers work. Most times, I find I simply don't miss a command
line _when I'm on the Mac_.

That's not to say that MPW perl is bad or wrong or anything... but if
Matthias hadn't done a standalone MacPerl... I probably wouldn't use
MacPerl.

(I thought we needed to hear from "the other side" ;-)
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