I personally believe that this is not "real" news, (but I couldn't think of a better section and I wanted to say this thing to the world...) so those exclusively interested in them are advised to skip this post altogether!

Whatever, this is news for me: (albeit not terribly recent one...) after some years I thought to have at least heard most "brands" derived from Perl - from the most common ones like mod_perl to less known ones like PerlScript. (Well, perhaps the latter is not a perfect example but indeed even most people using ActivePerl don't know that it ships with PS, what it is for and above all, don't use it.) However the other day I was browsing Wikipedia under the influence of a well known but catastrophic effect when I landed on GNUWin II and I stumbled upon SiePerl.

SiePerl?!? What's that? (The WP entry is not hyperlinked...) But then the GW II guys themselves do explain it:

The binary version of perl (SiePerl) that is provided here was built by Siemens Business Services and comes under a free license but has no support. A commercially maintained version can be downloaded from ActiveState.

After this, it's not too much of a surprise to find the beast in CPAN and... a brief, passing mention here!

So, all in all: just surprised by the existence of this Perl distro (although it seems to have stopped at 5.8 its life!) which had eluded me for years, while I think to have stumbled in some way or another in all other ones, either short or long lived!

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In reply to [OT?] A strange finding: Sieperl by blazar

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