I too hate to propagate this thread but John has a point. The people most aware of Microsoft's hegemony are the people on the front lines, the programmers. I don't think this warrants a split into seperate lists but we should definately discuss this issue as it is a hinderance to portability, seemingly an intentional one.
-----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:40 PM To: yahoo Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: off subject: How do I Configure Perl for use with a Personal Web Server? Joel, I agree we have to stop this thread, but I also think that NT is one of Perl's biggest problems. I have to write Perl on NT all the time and just escaping the \\ is a serious pain. It is also difficult to write portable code - in fact I think MicroSoft intentionally makes it difficult - but also because I sometimes I have to use attrib and need to put in an if to do a chmod (unless there is a better way). Which doubles testing. And reading that stupid registry, I think ini files were almost better. Maybe we need seperate lists for Windows Perl beginners and Unix Perl beginners. Regarding that Debian crack my response is that RedHat is the MicroSoft of Linux. -John At Wednesday, 30 January 2002, "yahoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >good grief! get off your bloody linux high horse!!! > >Linux is about choice and choice means that sometimes you want to use >windows and sometimes you want to use linux. > >stop your preaching. If you don't want to answer the guys questions that >please refrain from posting -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
