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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: 13 Sep 1995 01:57:35 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In article <427eaj$1ri@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) writes:
>In <19950831T090632Z@naggum.no> Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:
>>| Use perl. or, if you must be object-oriented, tehn use Visual Basic.
>>| With these you can be creative, useful, productive, even valuable.
>>perl5 is purported to be object-oriented. it's a little less cryptic than
>>C++, and people say that the object model is cleaner than C++ (which
>>doesn't take much). (I don't know perl myself -- I prefer writing code I
>>can be proud of on other bases than job security through unmaintainability,
>>but just saying this might upset the misc.jobs.offered crowd, again.)
Bonehead says:
>Okay, here is where I am going to have to be almost rude and say "are you
>a bonehead?" Perl is 0% portable. Why write a program that can only
>work Unix machines? I've never heard of a Windows Perl interpretor. And
Perl on Windows 3.1? Yes, I doubt it's possible. But, I've seen Perl
compile on almost every flavor of Unix. That would qualify as
portable. I have Perl on my Windows NT machine at work. That would
qualify as more portable. I have seen Perl run on an OS/2 machine.
That would qualify as pretty damn portable.
What does Unix have to do with it? Perl was not written specifically
for Unix. It simply was first written *on* Unix.
That point aside, however, you seem to be saying that Unix-related
things can't easily be made to be portable. To prove you wrong, I'm
going to take you to the very source: Unix itself. It runs on more
platforms than any other operating system. Heck, even NetBSD, a free
variation on Unix, runs reliably on more platforms than any commercial
operating system.
So, what was your point again?
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