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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl for the Macintosh?
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.011417.18071@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 91 01:14:17 GMT
References: <9473@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <9473@dog.ee.lbl.gov> by beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard):
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| Has anybody done a port of perl to the Macintosh?  Either for MPW or 
| THINK C would be fine.
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Perl would only make sense running under the MPW shell (unless THINK C now has
such a shell), so I'd look for an MPW C implementation.  Not that I know of
any, but it shouldn't be that hard to port it for the MPW shell because that
supports a Unix-oid line interface.  (Think of MPW as a port of PWB to the
Mac, for those of you not familiar with it.  There are a number of similar-
ities, including the "shell" as a sort of cross between sh and csh with some
Mac-isms thrown in.)

(Perl with a GUI interface... the mind boggles.  ;-)

++Brandon
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