Pardon me. My English crashed. I'm back, it's okay now.

Anyway, yes, your suggestion is actually... hang on... somebody's trying to get into my English. I should be able to... Ya liubio po-russki!! Chto ti delal c Angliski yazik? Ne sse v veder!

Petruchio peeks out from behind the curtain. Have they stopped throwing things yet?

Ok, seriously, Perl runs on Windows, and much as I like Unix, it'd be a very bad thing if people here got down on Windows folks (friendly, humorous rivalry is another matter). Happily, I don't see that happening much. I think "Primary O/S" would be a fine thing; besides the mentioned benefit, it would add color and make good fodder for statisticians. $OzzyOsbourne++;

(tongue firmly in cheek)

Before merlyn beats me to pointing to CPAN, you know if you used the Know::English module instead of reinventing the wheel it would be much more stable, people would adore you, your car would never need gas, and you could make a living winning spelling bees.

=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...

LOL!

-OzzyOsbourne

How about adding support for Geek Code?

If we tag it like:


<!--
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GED/J d-- s:++>: a-- C++(++++) ULU++ P+ L++ E---- W+(-) N+++ o+ 
K+++ w--- O- M+ V-- PS++>$ PE++>$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++ X++ R+++>$ 
tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++ G+++++ e++ h r-- y++**
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
-->
[download]

you can make all kinds of (un)interesting statistics out of that, including OS preferences...

/brother t0mas

well, for one thing...

<!-- GSS/CS ... V-->--- -->

where's the end of the comment going to be? (I'm not quite familiar enough with HTML to tell you offhand for sure.)

Update: Turns out that the above code will print the last --- -->on the screen because it's already got the end of the comment tag (-->)... at least, that's what it thinks.
I think it would be kinda cool to have Geekcodes on the Stats Page, it's just the implementation. jcwren, if you decide to do this, couldn't we just include the codes (and have em separated by the ----BEGIN GEEK CODE---- or however they begin, and then you can check em out in both places.

Hi, just two things - It should be:

<!-- os:TRSDOS,CP/M,NT,linux -->

Also are these the only options we have?

I have updated my homenode.
This is fun!

Thanks for this solution, Chris.

-OzzyOsbourne

Explain to me again why vroom doesn't give you an account on his MySQL server.


AgentM Systems nor Nasca Enterprises nor Bone::Easy nor Macperl is responsible for the comments made by AgentM. Remember, you can build any logical system with NOR.

Actually I think that for the most part anyone that is using NT here is doing so because that is a standard at the office. But I do see your point people here try to make the best of their situation by using PERL on any OS that their employers give them.

--BigJoe

Learn patience, you must.
Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
Use the source Luke.

excellent idea. this would also help in finding BSD folks, SUN folks, etc. lots of uses...

"sometimes when you make a request for the head you don't
want the big, fat body...don't you go snickering."
                                         -- Nathan Torkington UoP2K a.k.a gnat

Cough. <Running and Ducking>That is debatable.</Running and Ducking>

Friendly cross atlantic ragging aside; all languages, operating systems, programming paradigms and editors are just tools. You use the right tool for the job. People discovered that thousands of years ago. I don't see where the confusion lies.

Also, diversity is the best and probably the only defence against a future where change is the only constant. I would hold this to be a fairly universal truth, not only applying to computing. For example, there is currently a dearth of genetic diversity. We are living in the period of time that has more species becoming extinct than at any other time in history.

"That is debatable."

Oh, good. An Oirishman is making fun of the way we speak. I can't even bring myself to touch that one... it's just too easy. ;-)