In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
09/06/2005
at 08:31 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Being the original questioner, I will say that anything I might write
>for the "Librarian" functionality would probably be written in Perl.
>Perl is fairly transportable. However, I am likely to end up using
>modules from CPAN for utility functions (such an ftp and http
>functions). I don't know how portable the various CPAN modules are.
>It most likely varies greatly.
I've only run into one nasty portability issue in Perl, involving the
CGI module. The code "require CGI" messes up line-end handling even if
you don't explicitly[1] call any of the CGI code. The bug may have
been fixed by now.
[1] The require implicitly calls it.
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