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Re: [MacPerl] fork()



At 11.06 -0700 2000.07.13, John W Baxter wrote:
>At 9:01 -0400 7/13/2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>Yes.  Open a shell and type "perl".  Mac OS X ships with perl 5.6.
>
>It seems a bit premature to proclaim that...since Mac OS X doesn't ship yet.

Well, since I spoke in the present tense, I think it was mostly clear that
I meant the current versions, which are prerelease/developer release
versions.  The original poster was also speaking in the present tense.  I
should have been more clear.


>Mac OS X prerelease versions will *probably* continue to ship with perl 5.6
>as Apple marches toward first customer release (which isn't the summer
>public beta, but the winter real thing).

Yes, and none of us know if perl will ship with the beta or final version.

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