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To: JC Jaros who wrote (47644)	7/12/2000 7:10:17 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Perl is just for Unix perl.com Isn't Perl just for Unix? I hear this, and I'm finding it harder to answer it with a straight face. The standard Perl distribution contains support for over 70 operating systems. Separate porting projects exist for Windows and for the Macintosh, and many other systems besides. It's hard to find a computer that Perl doesn't run on these days: Perl now even runs on the Psion organiser and is close to being built on the Palm Pilot. This means that Perl is one of the most - if not the most portable language around. A properly written program will need absolutely no changes to move from Unix to Windows NT and on to the Macintosh, and an improperly written one will probably need three or four lines of change. Perl is, most definitely, not just for Unix. That one is, purely and simply, a myth. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "There are plenty of examples of Perl programs that don't run Win32 Perl" - JC Jaros So show us one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Microsoft To Fund Perl Development for Windows Platform. perl.com "The intention of the agreement is to improve Perl on the Windows platform. ActiveState will add features previously missing from Windows ports of Perl, such as an implementation of fork, as well as full support for Unicode on Windows platforms, a key feature for international users."

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