Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:12:57 +1000 From: "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" <boconno6@ford.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: m$ FUNDS PERL dev Message-ID: <199906030113.VAA25029@mailfw1.ford.com>
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http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-37338,00.html?st.ne.100.head "On the Windows platform, we don't have nearly the same number of developers as for Unix. A lot of this work wasn't getting done," Hardt said. "People moving [Perl] scripts back and forth have found that to be a big barrier," he said. For example, something that's present in Unix but missing on the Windows version is the "fork" feature, which lets a program make a copy of itself, Hardt said, a very useful ability for programs that use the network. ActiveState will add the fork function into Perl for Windows and release the code to the open source community, he said. " hmmmm boc -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian O'Connor Ford Australia Email: boconno6@ford.com Unix Consultant to Ford Australia Telephone: +61 3 93597848 Ford Of Australia Ford Australia Facsimile: +61 3 93598266 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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