Microsoft Surprise

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Re: Microsoft Surprise by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2004 at 10:36 UTC
Assuming your a Win32 user, go to a command line and type: `help ftype` Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Time is a poor substitute for thought"--theorbtwo "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Microsoft Surprise by rupesh (Hermit) on Nov 17, 2004 at 13:51 UTC
I've seen that before. Thing is I didn't give much thought abt the example, thinking it was too obvious. Now I realize. demerphq said 2 Mill.? Phew. Hats off to Mr. Larry Wall I guess. Good Day All...	[reply]
Re^3: Microsoft Surprise by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 17, 2004 at 18:51 UTC
I dont think Larry was involved. I think it was Activestate alone. But im hardly an authority on the subject, this is just the gist of my recollections. --- demerphq	[reply]
Re^2: Microsoft Surprise by Anonymous Monk on Nov 18, 2004 at 06:50 UTC
Assuming his a Win32 user?	[reply]
Re^3: Microsoft Surprise by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2004 at 07:27 UTC
Seems it was a correct assumption. It also seem likely, given that his link was to information on an MS site. It was also an assumption that played the odds given the proponderence of computer users that are Win32 users. That's somewhat dampened by the use of Perl I admit, but it would be interesting to know (were it possible to), how the relative proportions (Win32 to non-Win32) of systems running Perl scripts on a regular basis? Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Time is a poor substitute for thought"--theorbtwo "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]
No Surprise by rrwo (Friar) on Nov 17, 2004 at 22:01 UTC
Microsoft wants companies who use Unix to start using Windows Server. So they'll need to appeal to those people, a lot of whom use Perl for all sorts of backroom operations. Perl comes with the Unix Services for Windows package. I recall it used to come with the NT 3.5 or 4.0 Server Resource Toolkit. And I'm sure a lot of MS people use Perl too. It's way better for coding than VBScript or JScript.	[reply]
Re: Microsoft Surprise by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2004 at 10:22 UTC
Ok, I will bite. Why is this surprising to you?	[reply]
Re^2: Microsoft Surprise by rupesh (Hermit) on Nov 17, 2004 at 10:25 UTC
Well, more of a surprise, it seems surreal...	[reply]
Re^3: Microsoft Surprise by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 17, 2004 at 12:47 UTC
Don't be surprised. Its reasonably well known in the Perl community that MS uses Perl for its own purposes (supposedly testing) and that they spent a fair amount funding Activestate to make Perl under Win32 viable. (I recall mention of 2 Million dollars...). The MS scripting host supports perlscript and you can use perlscript from within MS SQL Server. The thing I find funny about it is IMO learning perl on Win32 is a great way to become familiar with NIX. By the time youve learned perl to a decent level you will ahve implicitly absorbed a large amount of nix concepts, if only through learning how Win32 does them differently. --- demerphq	[reply]
Re^4: Microsoft Surprise by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 17, 2004 at 18:49 UTC