Re^2: How to list all the things in a directory?

Sure.

* Palm OS - there's no perl port, and I find it highly unlikely that perl could ever be ported to it given the, umm, "eccentric" memory model and lack of things like filehandles, processes etc;

* iPhone OS - there's no perl on the machine, Apple won't ever let it in the App Store, and even if you jailbreak, you'd still have to build (and possibly port) it yourself cos it's not in any of the Cydia repositories;

* CP/M - OK, so I'm eccentric (and so was my customer), but I've done paid work on CP/M in the last ten years.

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Re^3: How to list all the things in a directory? by rovf (Priest) on Apr 29, 2010 at 10:27 UTC
CP/M - OK, so I'm eccentric (and so was my customer), but I've done paid work on CP/M in the last ten years. Incredible!!!! I had not expected that hardware from this time would still work! I have done my last CP/M(-86) development in the around 1990 and even then it was obsolete already. Thanks for the information! -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to list all the things in a directory? by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 29, 2010 at 12:40 UTC
CP/M ... I had not expected that hardware from this time would still work! At work, there is still an ancient CP/M system running in a production environment, controlling a very special measurement device. The people working with it are quite happy with the system. The CP/M machine may be a little bit slow, but the measurement device is so much slower that it does not matter at all. The real advantage of that CP/M system is that it is build from components that do not need sophisticated cooling equipment. It doesn't even need a fan. And because the mesurement device once was worth its weight in gold (more or less ;-) ), the price for the computer was nearly irrelevant. So it was built from durable, high quality components, oversized and better than initially needed, lasting for a few decades. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: How to list all the things in a directory? by DrHyde (Prior) on May 04, 2010 at 10:49 UTC
What makes you think the hardware wouldn't work? If you look after your gear, it doesn't just randomly break. Most of what I did for fifteen years on that maintenance contract was carefully taking the machine apart and cleaning it once a year - and boy did it get filthy from sitting in a barn running a bunch of industrial equipment. Although I did do some programming on it in the past decade. Once. That was ... "interesting".	[reply]