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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 22:30:24 Bill Houle wrote:
>Steven J. Owens said:
>>
>> Perl itself has no Y2K issues. God alone only knows what Microsoft
>> introduced into the mix. Particularly, you should check to see if the
>> version Perl installed on your machine is the ActiveState port. ActiveState
>> is owned by Microsoft - in the Perl community, their version of Perl for
>> Win32 is regarded with suspicion and some distrust, particularly because
>> it has diverged from the main Perl codebase.
>
>This is all true except for everything after the first sentence. :)
>
>ActiveState is a privately held company with no relationship to MS.
>It is actually a partnership with O'Reilly & Associates, the new
>corporate parents of Perl (with the full blessing of Larry Wall).
>
>Early versions of ActiveState were based on a modified 5.003, while
>various other more "public" versions were based on 5.004; this is
>the source of the "distrust" that was mentioned. However, all is rosey
>now as the 5.005 codebase is fully cross-platform and ActiveState is
>the only remaining "sanctioned" version for Win32 (again, with Larry's
>blessing).
>
>--bill
>
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