[MacPerl] Offtopic - was MPPE Mailing list - Please move to -Forum

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

Borrowing Chris' dead horse for the moment... :-)

At 15:05 -0500 07/13/1999, Matthew Langford wrote:
>Shouldn't this thread be on the Forum list

Folks, I'm not ListMom here; I just keep the server going. But as a list
member, I think this discussion has gone way off topic. These are precisely
the sort of discussions for which MacPerl-Forum was created!  :)

>I can't think of anything that MS actually wrote from the ground up
>except maybe Access. FoxBASE was bought and converted to FoxPro when
>Windoze became stable enough to bother with. They killed the server
>version in favor of "their" (Sybase) SQL server. The Fox indexing
>technology is why it's faster than any other disk-based RDBMS.

>>But if people are using PHP, so what?  They should use the language
>>most appropriate for the job, of course.  Why do people think that
>>*everyone* is after "global domination", or that the "Big Dogs of
>>the Perl Community" want to give you one and only one choice for
>>doing CGI or anything else, or that they're completely focused on
>>"market share"?

>Do you mean to say you do not use PDL?  :-)

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