Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl)) Message-ID: <1989Nov29.233738.15539@NCoast.ORG> Date: 29 Nov 89 23:37:38 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <5261@omepd.UUCP> <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: alt.sources.d Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 19 As quoted from <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> by dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi): +--------------- | Now with the recent Perl posting, I again see patches appearing almost | simultaneously. +--------------- And a very large part of those patches is fixes to make Perl work right on some strange machine running Egadsnix somewhere or other. Larry is trying to make Perl run on almost everything, and the patches refine its portability. Not that there aren't any actual bug fixes, but they're fairly few and far between compared to the portability patches. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)* expnet.all: Experiments in *net management and organization. Mail me for info. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com