in reply to RE: Sun Going PERL
in thread Sun Going PERL

Do you think that with Microsoft getting involved with ActiveState that Perl will be bundled with Windows 200x? Just think, you could run perl scripts on PC clients without having to worry whether they had a perl install or not. Goodbye to the 200+ different scripting languages that M$ has invented over the last few years. Just add a .pm for each product. A .pm for SMS, for Sourcesafe, small windows applications written in Tk without a perl rollout... As close to heaven as a PC will let you.

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RE: RE: RE: Sun Going PERL
by splinky (Hermit) on Jul 04, 2000 at 18:00 UTC
    Not likely. They already offer VB interfaces to everything they release, so a .pm for each product would just be duplication. I feel gratified that MS is offering Perl at all... to me, it's an admission that VB isn't good enough to do everything NT sysadmins need it to do.

    Out of curiosity... I'm guessing it's possible to call VB from within a Perl program, right? Maybe via system()?

    *Woof*

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RE: RE: RE: Sun Going PERL
by tenatious (Beadle) on Jul 04, 2000 at 17:08 UTC
    Embrace and extend.
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