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
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In reply to Re: Re: Saving Keystrokes to Preview Scripts Locally with Apache by demerphq
in thread Saving Keystrokes to Preview Scripts Locally with Apache by Petras

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