Hello Corion,

I think you're confusing my portability and scalability issues with others requirements for speed and/or obfuscation. I have stated on PM that 'Perl just gets better and better" and I meant it. I don't have issues with Perl's speed.

Also I do have programs that were compiled in 1990 on pre-released IBM RS/6000 computers running AIX 3.0 beta ( AIX 3.1.5 was the official release in 1991 ) that can run today on 'power 7, p-series computers running AIX 7.1'. The computers are binary compatible even though the source code doesn't compile. K&R 'C' is considered traditional today, and most 'C' products no longer support traditional code.

IMHO, if you ever have to authorize a '10 man-year' project to manually update source code on 2500+ computers, instead of remotely updated the compiled code over a weekend, then maybe you would see it as a little bigger and different problem.

Thank you