On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:24:05AM -0700, William R Ward wrote:
>
> I don't think so. Sun's always hated Perl. Long before Java, there
> was TCL/TK, and its inventor was a high mucky-muck at Sun. Perl has
> been lengua non grata there for years and I doubt that'll change
> anytime soon.
>
> Remember: Logic has no power in the face of politics!
I suspect you're a little out of touch with current reality:
It is impossible to install Solaris 8 (even in the most minimal
configuration) without Perl also being installed in /usr/bin/perl.
Sun tech support will provide support for perl on Solaris (to the same
extent as they support awk, for example).
There are also a bunch of Solaris commands that are *implemented* in perl
(performance stats stuff, I forget the names, written by Alan Burlison).
Tim.
