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From: jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: How portable IS perl?
Message-ID: <1991May6.153322.617@arizona.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 22:33:21 GMT
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I am thinking of using perl as our default scripting language, but it
was brought to my attention that an OS upgrade might break perl.  Does
that happen?  Say we go from Ultrix 4.0 to 4.2... or AIX 1.2 to AIX
1.2.1?  Does anyone use it across several operating systems and count
on it to always work?  I think perl is great, but I don't want to
burn any bridges as it were.... :-)

jew@sunquest.com

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God must love the common man: He made so many of them.