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Please get over this M$ DO$ trip that you are on. Its kinda rude, and fairly ignorant. Perl is a cross platform language by intention. It runs on just about everything. Including all the flavours of Win32, and even possibly on DOS. The fact that it does has undoubtadly contributed to its success and popularity. So slanging matches about OS's and machines don't impress people much.

On a different note, I think i should explain why im even bothering to write this. To me the "M$ DO$" betrays a contempt that is dangerous. Whatever you personally think about Win32, the fact is that it is successful, popular, and generally speaking very good at what it sets out to do. The fact that what it is intended to do, and what you want it to do are different is a completely seperate matter. Win32 should be the subject of study and analysis, its strengths should be emulated and its mistakes avoided. *NIX and open source will never replace Win32 in the business and average home until its supporters start taking it seriously.

(I should say that many many people in the open source community do take Win32 very seriously. If it was open sourced tomorrow and MS disappeared it would still be ticking years from now. In fact it would probably do very very well.)

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

I guess it's somewhat accurate to use the word 'contempt,' and to some point I agree with you. At some points I think there is way too much government regulation in some businesses. On the other hand, Enron and such have recently shown that there's not enough government accountability some times. Do I think the government should say to Microsoft, "You've got too much money and we've dealt with the cigarette companies already, so we're look to you for a quick litigation buck?" No, I don't think the government should intervene in business as much as it does.

Windows and (MS in general) does do somethings well (marketting being at the top of the list). Of course if I had a dime for everytime my screen faded to purple I could have easily paid for the legally licensed MS products that I use. That's not the point, though, of 'this M$ DO$ trip' that I am on. The embedded '$' is just about the greed of the business. Some artists draw because they love it. Some artists draw because they need to eat. A movie we saw recently said (roughly), "Don't you think that garbage man is in it for the money cause he sure ain't in it for the garbage?" Does Microsoft have a right to be a money-hungry monopoly that steals Stacker code and practices illegal convolusion? Sure, if they want.

You also pointed out that those who write should take the best that Windows has to offer, use it, and reject the rest. That's really what open source and extreme programming are all about.

I can be civil, though. This is a community, after all. I can refrain from calling M$ M$ if it will help the harmony. MS it is.

Thanks--Petras

C:\>echo test > .htaccess

C:\>type .htaccess
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C:\>dir .*
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Directory of C:\
03/02/02  06:43a                     7 .htaccess
               1 File(s)              7 bytes
                            259,147,776 bytes free

C:\>
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Guess it depends on which flavour of Win.