Adam Turoff (lists.advocacy):
>Last I checked, qmail is written in Perl, and pumps out a
Check more often.
justanother:root /home/simon # file /var/qmail/bin/* | grep -i perl
justanother:root /home/simon # file /var/qmail/bin/qmail-*
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-clean: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>> The Perl modules will be written when someone writes them....the need for
>> them has been around for a while now.
>
>From http://www.wapforum.org/what/index.htm
>
>Those Perl modules will be WAP compliant, but I can't imagine
>they're going to be very useful if they run on Solaris but not
>PalmOS.
I plan to fix this. :)
Besides, I think Elaine's missed something about the word "need". (Yes, Pudge,
I'm going to argue semantics. :) "need" means that not having them is not
acceptable. We do not have them; if there was a need, we would have.
>Because we tend to be engineers that prefer patches and working code to
>marketing. Where would Java be if Kim Polese, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy
>weren't on magazine covers at the rate of 12x/year talking about Java?
>Probably as well known as Python, Perl or TCL.
The question, though, is why they're there. However, I agree that our
loyalties should lie fairly and squarely with the programmer. World
domination comes from the bottom up, when programmers are insisting on
Perl to their PHBs. *Then* PHBs will seriously look into it and find it
sexy.
Worked for Linux.
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