... since they say Perl won't be supported in Longhorn.

Ask them what they mean by that?

To my knowledge, MS don't 'support' Perl now. I know they did put some investment into AS at one time and even contributed some code to the Win32 codebase I think, but I don't think they ever added anything to XP to enable it to "support Perl".

So what will they not be doing that would prevent Perl being ported to Longhorn?

Sound like they don't like/want to learn Perl, which is their perogative, but attributing their reluctance to MS not supporting it doesn't make much sense (to me anyway).

PS. By the way, won't Longhorn be Win64?. And, from the little I've read, won't (most) Win32 apps (including Perl) run perfectly well in a w32onw64 WOW box?

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In reply to Re: Future of Perl on Win32? by BrowserUk
in thread Future of Perl on Win32? by bowei_99

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