Excuse me? What makes you think a binary program is easier to install than a text program? The claim wasn't that the installation of the program is easier (of course it isn't - it's still a program), the claim was that maintaining the installation of Perl is hard. And that's something I question. It's as hard as you want it to be.

By this logic, C and C++ must be really, really unpopular. No customer installing an application written in those languages knows that C/C++ is being used, after all...

Oh, I see! C is so popular because people insist of using programs written in C! That's it! Yeah, right. The popularity of C doesn't depend on the number of people installing programs because they are written in C.

The ability to deliver atomic, easily-installed apps would increase the popularity of Perl among the people who write the apps, not the people who use them.

Could you please, please tell us what's so frigging hard in installing a program written in Perl that magically disappears when it's delivered in a binary format?

-- Abigail

In reply to Re: The Future - Shipping Applications Written in Perl by Abigail
in thread The Future - Shipping Applications Written in Perl by John M. Dlugosz

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