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After sleeping on this, I woke up an thought this:
If it's going to be difficult (read: Damian Conway+Larry Wall+CowboyNeal needed) to do a full port to Palm OS, then what about a perl debugger? This wouldn't be too dificult, plus I would think that it would be a more effective use of time until perl6 comes out (anybody got an ETA on that?). This is, of course, only if the guys I have mailed above don't respond in a week or so.

The reason I am not wanting to go straight ahead with a full-blown perl port is really becuase I don't have the technical ability/time to do things like this. Plus if someone already has a lot of the port done, I don't want to look like a fool :). Remember the first rule of programming: don't try to re-invent the wheel.

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Re: Re: palm perl porting, problems?
by BrentDax (Hermit) on Jul 26, 2001 at 01:24 UTC
    Er, Perl already has a debugger... perl -d myscript.pl (or something like that)

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      The problem we would have to get the built-in debugger to work, you would first have to port perl to Palm, therefore defeating the object of not porting perl to Palm

      By the way, still nothing from any of the mails I sent..... :(


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