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From: alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl under other OSs
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.190558.21867@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Dec 89 19:05:58 GMT
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We are switching from an VM/CMS OS to VMS over the next year and one of
our problems is converting all our scripts, written in REXX, to some other
scripting language. Given that we are going to also be running UNIX on
some of our machines, it would be nice to have a consistent scripting
language over both UNIX and VMS, Perl seems ideal for this. 

BUT, does anyone have any comments on the difficulties of adapting Perl to
run under VMS? I suspect that it isn't a trival task (requiring
modification to several features/calls of the language), perhaps a subset
would be possible. 

Is there anyone out seriously conasidering porting Perl to VMS (It would
be nice, Perl blows DCL right out of the water).

Thanks for any comments you have.


Alex Heatley                                Computing Services Centre
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