Richard Troth wrote:
Perl was ported to OE more than a decade ago and saw use on OpenVM and
on OpenMVS (USS). I am not a strong Perl follower, but would be
shocked and saddened to learn that it was no longer viable on USS. (I
know one guy who was doing some serious QA work with Perl on USS at
one point.)
So ... sure ... Perl should work fine on EBCDIC operating systems.
Thanks for your answers. We at Perl would be happy to get Perl working
again on EBCDIC machines. But the people who in the past used it and
helped keep it working, stopped. What would be required is for someone
with such a machine that has some spare cycles, to donate some of them
for testing purposes. The basics are covered here:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Smoke/README
Once setup, it is essentially automated. If you know of anyone who
would be interested in doing this, have them send email to
[email protected]
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