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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: How portable IS perl?
Message-ID: <5134:May823:21:4691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 23:21:46 GMT
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In article <1991May6.153322.617@arizona.edu> jew@rt.sunquest.com (/87336) writes:
> 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?

No. Perl, the program, is extremely portable. Perl, the language, is not
very portable, because Perl, the program, is only running on a fraction
of the hosts that it could be ported to. But I find it difficult to
imagine an OS change so drastic that Larry has to drop support for a
system entirely.

---Dan