Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,
Did anybody try Perl on MacOS8/MacOS9? Do socket functions work on it (connect/bind/accept/socket/getprotobyname/etc)?

Also a bit of generic question - are computers MacOS8/MacOS9 widely spread? (What's their ratio compared to MacOSX-running computers?) How long ago MacOS8/9 became unsupported? I'm just thinking whether to port some networking script to MacOS8/MacOS9 - how it will be easy to do this, and whether it makes sense at all..

Thanks in advance for your answer!

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Re: Is Perl on MacOS8/MacOS9 usable? Do socket functions work on Mac? Does it make sense to port anything to it?
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Feb 04, 2005 at 12:59 UTC
    The old MacOS is dead. Yes, there was a Perl port for it, but since OS X has been the default OS for about three years now, and ships with Perl, don't expect a lot of OS8/9 activity.

    That said, I did use it back in the day, and IIRC, it had all the standard functionality that I wanted/tried, and I think that includes the socket functionality. That's been a few years, though, so don't take my fuzzy recollections as the gospel.

    There were a couple sites that were dedicated to Perl on the Mac; maybe they're still around? I can't remember URLs or even names. Try googling for them.

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