On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> (1) Programmer Brain Damage ...
>
> This is not a *language* problem, but human one. If the program is
> written properly, it will run anywhere!
Okay, Paul. Write me a Perl program that will batch add new user accounts,
including setting the password, that will run anywhere. :-)
> Since I have never written anything for the win32 world in any way shape
> or form, I have little knowledge about what perl can and can't do on such
> an inherently braindead platform.
It ain't that hard to be portable to only one platform, Paul. :-)
No program exists in a vacuum. It's nice to blame portability on the
environment, but if your program doesn't interact with the environment in any
way at all, why are you running it? :-)
> (Of course, at least you *can* move a perl program to win32. Ever tried
> porting a csh program to win32? ;)
With a good POSIX environment, like CygWin for example, I imagine it
wouldn't be that hard.
>>> There is no porting for perl scripts.
>>
>> Then please explain the need for the 'perlport' manpage. :-)
>
> See number 1 above. It was made for those who wrote programs with little
> or no fore-thought to portability.
Grrrr. Go and read the manpage before you make statements like that.
You'll see there is quite a bit to portability, even for Perl.
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