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From: connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: (don't laugh) perl on a mac?
Summary: Has anybody ported perl to the Mac under MacOS?
Keywords: perl mac
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Date: 19 Feb 91 01:33:52 GMT
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There's a lot of useful text-file-munging and file conversions
that I could really use perl for.

The closest thing is HyperCard (ok, now you can laugh),
and while it will work, it is
DOG SLOW at reading/writing text files.

Dan