In data 19 februar 2009 alle ore 16:12:36, Matt Pitts <[email protected]> ha scritto:
I think that the success of other languages, especially Python is also due to the fact that they support better Windows than Perl. [...]
Sad to say, but I completely agree with this. It's quite ironic how the drive of open source has only furthered the need for OS agnostic software and platforms, which in turn, has actually made life harder for things like Perl that have strong origins in *nix OSes. [...]
I really, really want to be able to "just run" my Cat apps in Windows, and I probably could get it going under ActiveState or Strawberry if I stuck to it
Does that mean that you haven't tried?
but I _need_ it to not be that hard. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
It's _not_ that hard. Perl has been good in the Windows world for long. Strawberry has improved this a great deal. Perl on Windows runs most of CPAN without problems. And yes, I sent my small amount of patches too, whenever it hurt me. Perl fully supports building on MSVC from 6 to 2008, and Win32 GCC.
In today's world of software that is cross-platform and OS agnostic at its core, Perl 5 is showing its age.
Cross-platform is one point where Perl excelled, and I think it's still very strong. Then if WxPerl is not developed as WxPython is not Perl's fault. -- Cosimo _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
