On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> >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).
Behold the wonder of CPAN:
perl -MCPAN -e "install <module/bundle name>"
Downloads, configures, makes and installs the module yer missing. Better
yet, it will go out and get any other modules that you need to install to
get the module you're trying to install working.
That last sentence makes no sense.
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