* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-10-17 02:35]: > On 16-Oct-2007, at 18:20, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >> * Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-10-16 23:30]: >>> I find portable shell code easier to write and read than >>> Perl. > >> Ah? Does your shell code run on VMS, Win32, Symbian, OS/390 >> and RiscOS in addition to *every* Unix and clone under the >> S^Hsun? > > I write for open systems platforms. > > I *have* in fact run my portable shell code on VMS and Windows, > mind you. Of course if you're configuring a portable software > package to build native on VMS and Windows the shell is the > barest whiff of the hate in store for you. > > RiscOS? Well, if you want to include dead operating systems > I'll add BeOS and AmigaDOS.
I can't be bothered to check, but I'm sure Perl runs on at least one of those as well, probably both. MakeMaker needs to work on ALL OF THESE. It's as gruesome as it sounds. That's why people revolted and started a rewrite that doesn't rely on external tools. Just Perl. Well, except the new module has its own problems, and people (on Unices mainly, where MakeMaker works passably, I guess) are used to MakeMaker's, uh, quirks, so they dump on the new kid and... ... argh, it's a truckload of hate. Software hate, people hate, several more kinds of software hate, and some more people hate. Hate. Hate, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
