From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 2 18:13:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailfw1.ford.com (mailfw1.ford.com [136.1.1.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2701014FED for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boconno6@ford.com) Received: by mailfw1.ford.com id VAA25029 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 4.2 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org); Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:13:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199906030113.VAA25029@mailfw1.ford.com> Received: by mailfw1.ford.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:13:08 -0400 Organization: Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited. ACN 004 116 223 Received: by mailfw1.ford.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:13:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:12:57 +1000 From: "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: m$ FUNDS PERL dev Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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