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From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl for VMS?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 12:46:48 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.175731.9445@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Nov14.174648.35806@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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In article <1990Nov14.174648.35806@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, jochterski@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
|> In article <1990Nov14.175731.9445@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
|> ems@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Eric Slimko) writes:
|> 
|> > This has undoubtedly best asked before, but being that I need
|> > to know... Has anyone ported Perl to VMS?  If so, where can
|> > I get it?  
|> 
|> I have been "lurking" in this news group looking for the answer to this very
|> question for several months, but it seems as though everyone who asks also asks
|> for an e-mail response. 

I am aware of an effort inside of DEC which may have yielded a port. I will
ask around and see what happened. My gut feeling though is that the work may
have been done on the version of VMS which marketing claims will be XPG3 and
POSIX.1 compliant...

- Marc
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