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On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:27:19 Jerry wrote:

> Since it does seem to work quite well under Linux, I was wondering
> if there was some fundamental flaw in FBSD that prevented it from
> working correctly here. Even so, failing to get  a major project like
> Perl running properly in over a year on FBSD does not bode well for the
> OS.

Aside from the rest said in this thread, maybe you should consider the fact 
that it's a cross platform scripting language's responsibility to provide 
compatibility for the operating system, not the other way around.
Also, Perl should really be cremated already, but you can file that 
under 'opinion'.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.