----- Original Message -----
From: "Hicks, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Petr Vileta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 7:22 PM
Subject: **SPAM** RE: date() function does not work in Windoze...
Yes Eric, you are absolutely right, but you write into Activestate
listserver :-) ActivePerl is primary intended for Windows programmers.
I cite from my Activestate Perl documentation:
<snip>
In other words: do not use C-specific, use Perl specific. As ill-luck
would
have it ... strftime() is on the same doc page, where other deprecated
functions are :-)
I am not sure if I got what you were trying to say. However, just to be
clear, strftime IS (or can be considered) Perl specific since the POSIX
module gives you it and it works wonderfully fine on Windows. I use
there every day.
Sorry, my English is too bad for cracking jokes. But now, without jokes:
If I take a look at 'perlfunc' documentation page (in html format in
ActivePerl) I see many functions which are deprecated. If I take a look at
'POSIX' doc, I see "A few functions are not implemented because they are C
specific."
I evaluate these informations as "do not use non-Perl functions and POSIX
module at all, because may have problems". In other words: I preffer to use
500 functions with 100% functionality on Win/Lin platform rather then 1000
functions with uncertain results.
If I'm writing program in Perl I want to use function where I need not to
study or to try if this code work properly on Windows98, Windows2000,
WindowsXP, Linux, HP-Unix where user have Perl5.6 or must have Perl5.8 or
... :-)
Do you understand yet?
Petr Vileta, Czech republic
(My server reject all messages from Yahoo and Hotmail. Send me your mail
from another non-spammer site please.)
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