Your additional info was a big help in opening the door a little, at least I'll stop looking in vain for a Perl application in OSX :-)
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:
At 21:25 -0700 2003.09.18, Jerry Beck wrote:I'm new to MacPerl and have several questions.
MacPerl is the version of perl that runs on Mac OS (what some people refer
to as "OS 9"). If you are using the perl that comes with Mac OS X, or have
installed your own on Mac OS X, that is not "MacPerl," it is plain old
"perl," and this list is not for you. :-) For Mac OS X, you want the list
down the hall, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, if you will be using a mixed environment -- as long as it involves
MacPerl on Mac OS (9) -- then this list is perfectly fine.
I have down loaded Perl 5.8.0 from apples site and installed it. However I can find no application to run and begin learning? Does Perl 5.8.0 run on OSX 10.2.6? where is the application?
Perl on Mac OS X is not an "application" like MacPerl on Mac OS is. It is
a plain old Unix process. Nothing to double-click. Regular Mac
applications can communicate with it, and you can talk to it via a shell
(such as with the Terminal application).
I use perl/MacPerl in largely the same way on both platforms: I write the
scripts in BBEdit and test/run them directly from BBEdit. But your mileage
very well may vary.
Cheers,
-- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
