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support whatever platforms Perl 5 supports (Score:1)

by metaperl (1904) on 2001.11.06 22:52 (#1822) Homepage Journal

or, if emacs can run on it, we should.

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- Re:support whatever platforms Perl 5 supports (Score:1)
  
  by kwilliams (1467)
  
  I don't think that's a great idea - Perl 5 supports some pretty crufty old platforms, and trying hard to support those platforms will probably waste developer effort when it's not clear that it's worth it to anybody anymore.
  
  I know (or I think) Dan is looking for specifics rather than philosophy statements, but here's one principle I'd put forth: breadth is more important than depth in this case. It's reasonable to ask people to have relatively recent versions of compilers, etc. when building Perl6, becau

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