Microsoft funds ActiveState's development of Perl for Win32. The president of ActiveState claims that his company is responsible for most of the development of new versions of Perl.

Even if ActiveState's claim is overstated, it cannot be denied that the Win32 port of Perl helps the Perl language immensely, and that Microsoft foots the bill for it. Funding development of Perl is a strange way to try and kill it off.

I say, let's be programmers, not conspiracy theorists. What good would killing Perl do Microsoft? Perl is not Java. It doesn't compete with C++ or even Visual Basic. It competes with Java and Unix shells.

Now why would Microsoft want to kill it?

In reply to Re: Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by sierrathedog04
in thread Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by Ovid

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