Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:07:10PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
> > > True, but you can't do any of all that without knowing the platform
> > > accurately (nontrivial and requires core mod or XS).  Once that's
> > > done, the rest is just a matter of extending File::Spec
> > > (trivial and pure Perl).
> > 
> > Trivial?  *cough* *snigger*
> 
> If it was trivial, Configure wouldn't need to exist--we could just use
> hints files.  Lots of hints files.  One for each configuration, in
> fact.  Hey Jarkko, I have an idea ... :-)

Someone please make the evil man go away...

> Nat

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