On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
> MacPerl is for the Classic / OS 9 and below environment. > MacPerl allows you to reach out into the normal Finder and > create Mac GUIs, or else interact with AppleScript and so on > and so forth. The Perl shipped with OS X is the standard Linux > Perl available to all Linux distributions - it doesn't have the > power to natively reach out to the Finder (but there's been > some progress in that area). A power that, in the opinions of some, is eagerly anticipated. I myself am missing some of the rilly, rilly kewl stuphf I used to do in MacPerl. Thankfully, almost all my BBEdit filters survived the transistion (although a few are now superceeded by BBEdit's new shell worksheets). Perl, BTW should pro'lly not be reffered to as "Linux Perl" in good company. In its standard distribution, Perl compiles out of the box on FAR more than just Linux, which it predates by a great deal. --B -- "If you actually thought flattery would turn on your Mac, you should probably read 'Self-Psychotherapy for Dummies' before you continue with this book. (And if you think that book exists, maybe you should check out 'Gullibility for Dummies')." --- Bob Levitus in "MacOS X for Dummies"
