in reply to Re^7: Why is it in some other popular languages fewer steps and potential issues when installing libraries no testing needed and no compilation of C/C++ code done
in thread Why are other popular languages very different from Perl when installing libraries, e.g. no testing needed and no compilation of C/C++ code done

You're still stuffed if you want your code to be portable though. Remember, not all the world runs on Intel.
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