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Perl has been first class on Win32 for a decade .. (Score:1)
In fact ActivePerl was more up to date than unix Perl during the late 5.005 and 5.6 because the pumpkin was primarily a Win32 developer.
If you want to find the second class citizens in the Perl world look at OS2, Aix, Hpux, and other strange unixes. I know you want to make Perl better and are working hard on it, but insulting the people who put together the foundation you're
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> If you want to find the second class citizens in the Perl world look at OS2, Aix, Hpux, and other strange unixes.
Consider it one-and-a-half class then...
> Perl has been a first class citizen on Win32 starting with the GSAR port back in late 90s, then Perl for Win32 and now ActivePerl.
I don't consider a Perl that doesn't support CPAN properly "first class".
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I consider ActivePerl firstclass, and strawberry perl is some strange shit distracting resources - and so what?
Give some respect to people who did the port to win32!
Re:Perl has been first class on Win32 for a decade (Score:1)
Read the article and find out. If it weren't for the work of ActiveState and all of the work that went into Perl 5.6.0 to enable Win32 support, this wouldn't be possible. No one but you and Zeek have disputed that.
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