in reply to What could I do with just Perl?

Thank you all for your concern and help with installing.

Perhaps I should have said that I did a manual install of Perl and everything is fine now.

The key problem for me was that with this crippled version of Perl on OS X you get CPAN, but CPAN apparently can't install anything because of missing header files, CORE/something.h was missing? It was very annoying anyway.

But I long ago sorted that stuff out and Perl and CPAN and fink are all working just fine thank you.

My question was "what could I do with just Perl", not "what can I do with my crippled install of Perl", so it was really more of a philosophical question -- the things we love about Perl, that make it so useful, how many of them are in the modules and how many are in the language/application itself? 


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