Bill Becker said: >Ummm, let me think about that for a moment ... Sorry, no. > >At first, it was famine with regards to ssoftware available for OS >X. Now it's feast. > >Is the MacPerl workbench the same? Or did they just hack a regular >unix version of it? Will (do?) we have the workbench even available?
There is no version of 'MacPerl' per se on OSX. At least, there isn't the same command shell/development tool that you see in Classic/OS 9. The version of perl that's available is just a regular unix version, but in no way 'hacked'. Ported - yes, 'hacked'- no. With things like CamelBones, I believe you can use the standard OSX development tools (Interface Builder and Project Builder) to create 'Cocoa' applications. This is actually *more* powerful than the existing 'MacPerl', at least in terms of building GUI based apps. Also, versions of BBEdit that run under OS X will act as perl development environments in the same way they do under OS 9. Alpha, I don't know about, but I assume so. There isn't, to my knowledge, any version of Shuck or the MacPerl help system available. But there's always http://search.cpan.org/, and all the other internet based perl documentation. And pod2html for offline viewing, and man, and... But really, all you need to do perl is a vt100 and ed, right... ;-) And if anyone is *surprised* at Apple's announcement of OS X only machines, you haven't been paying attention for the last two years (well, 18 years really - this is how Apple has *always* worked. You can't boot a 68K machine into OS 9). -Jeff Lowrey
