In a message dated: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:26:35 EDT
Derek Martin said:
>Today, Paul Lussier gleaned this insight:
>
>> Of course, this just goes to prove my point:
>>
>> When in doubt, write it in perl!
>>
>> it's the same everywhere :)
>
>No it isn't. IIRC, I have on several occasions tried to download some
>perl program only to find out it wouldn't run because I didn't have some
>perl module.
Perl is the same everywhere. The fact that you don't have a particular module
does not make the language different, it means you don't have a particular
module. My point is that if you write a perl program, it is guaranteed to run
anywhere perl is installed (and that goes for Win32 platforms too!).
Even if you do download a particular perl program and it doesn't run due to
some dependency upon a module you don't have, go get the module. You can't do
that with a shell script written in csh which uses syntax specific to a
particular implementation of csh, you then have to port the script.
There is no porting for perl scripts. Module installation, maybe, but no
porting (the very rare exception may be with Win32 platforms and perl scripts
which use system calls that don't exist there, but I think that's been worked
out now too).
--
Seeya,
Paul
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Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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