Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread jeremiah
Some yummy facts about Leopard: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a concise, AppleScript-like syntax. Ruby on Rails Work in a developer's dreamland. Leopard is

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a concise, AppleScript-like syntax. Mac OS X comes with

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread jeremiah
On Oct 17, 2007, at 5:25 PM, brian d foy wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a concise,

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Shane
On 10/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some yummy facts about Leopard: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge[...] Not a single word about perl. No mention of CamelBones I thought it was a well

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Wed, 17 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, it does come with Mac::Carbon, and yes there is CamelBones. I just think that Apple seems to ignore mentioning perl in their fancy marketing campaigns. I get frustrated by that since there is a misunderstanding about perl in

Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?

2007-10-17 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Doug McNutt writes: At 18:20 -0700 10/15/07, Michael Barto wrote: I think in the more newer languages, they have implemented true booleans. Perl is kind of old school. use constant TRUE = 1; use constant FALSE = 0; Is a complete solution in perl 5.

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Barto
The Perl developers are kind of a quiet group. But I think that Apple has done a very reasonable job for developers. I remember even in old MacOS9 that this Perl was ahead of what I had on Sun Solaris OS. There is always a leading edge, but my application need to be distributed, therefore I am

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Oct 17, 2007, at 6:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some yummy facts about Leopard: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a concise, AppleScript-like syntax.

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had also hoped for a new version of perl They're shipping the latest release (5.8.8, as noted by Ed Moy) - what do you want them to do, ship bleadperl? sherm-- Web Hosting by West Virginians, for West Virginians: http://wv-www.net

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Trey Harris wrote: Perhaps someone with the inside scoop can give some real beef (though I understand that that sort of inside baseball is something Apple strongly discourages). But I suspect it's just a case of marketing types taking a temperature on what's

PerlObjCBridge

2007-10-17 Thread macshaggy
Just a simple question. I have upgraded my Perl to 5.8.8, but I did not overwrite the default Perl, rather I installed 5.8.8 into /usr/ local/bin. I was wondering if I could still use PerlObjCBridge that comes with the Mac OS X Perl? I remember back in Jaguar if you upgraded your perl it wouldn't

Re: Leopard Perl version... @ 1192462023

2007-10-17 Thread David Cantrell
Doug McNutt wrote: At 15:29 +0100 10/16/07, David Cantrell wrote: The one I'm most looking forward to is perl being relocatable. Current versions of perl have the values for @INC hard-coded into the binary at compile-time. You can add to @INC in perl 5 by defining an environment variable

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Robinson
Not a single word about perl. No mention of CamelBones, using the Scripting Bridge for perl, or the fact that perl has CPAN with 12,000+ high quality I'm surprised that you are surprised. After all you took part in the thread in which Sherm said this:

Re: PerlObjCBridge

2007-10-17 Thread David Cantrell
macshaggy wrote: I can't wait for Leopard, but I'm going to have to since I can't afford to spend the money on it next week. I can wait for it, because I always like to let other people test an OS before I use it :-) -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david You can't judge a

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-17 Thread Ken Williams
On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2007, at 5:25 PM, brian d foy wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like I will have to stick with debian for developing my LAMP applications. If you want to work on the Mac, you still