> Behalf Of Bernie Parent
>
>
> Same old story and Microsoft philosophy. Embrace, extend and extinguish.
>
> Perl was once the software for all computers and operating systems. Ports
> once supported
> Borland compilers. Microsoft provided dollars to Activestate under the
> auspices of providing
> Perl for Win32 and Borland is abandoned. Coincidental. I don't
> think so.
>
I could be mistaken but I believe the 'support' for Borland was 'dropped'
before MS gave AS any money. If one can actually state it that way.
And those words are a little strong. I remember trying to build perl 4 on
Borland 3.1 and failing because then it really required an extender (phar
lap?) or something like that. So even then it didn't support Borland. And
even then I believe it compiled under MS or sometime shortly there after,
since the PerlCRT.lib/dll has been around before perl 5.
And I believe someone recently claimed that Borland stills builds it. And
you can always use gnu gcc if you really want to get away from MS (didn't MS
give money to Borland too?)
Support for different compilers is quite simple. Someone must build it and
work out the bugs with the different compilers. If so then it is supported.
If no one does that then it isn't supported.
Which suggests if it doesn't work under Borland, then it is up to you to get
to work on it. If not you then who else?
And none of the above applies to the external modules. Since it is very
easy to find external modules that don't work with MS either. For example
CPAN.pm, which is entirely perl, a compiler isn't even needed to build it.
But it won't work on a pure MS Windows box. Further does even the core of
5.6 compile MS on Win 9x? It certainly didn't with the first release.
> Hope the DOJ is successful . Until they are, Microsoft will continue to
> weaken innovations outside
> of their house or extend and extinguish software to their liking.
>
Hmmm...if MS is broken up, then I suspect in a very short while the pieces
will be acquiring things just the same. But more successfully - look at the
pieces of Ma Bell. If you really want it controlled then you should hope
that it isn't broken up. Then the DOJ can keep picking at it for the next
40 years.
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