Perl may be great, but... (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))
Chip Salzenberg
chip at ateng.com
Fri Nov 24 08:36:23 AEST 1989
According to jay at splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard):
>Perl won't run on my 286-powered system. Larry's comment about "perl
>probably won't run on 16-bit systems" is dead on.
Hah. Some debugging on my part made Perl 2.0 run under Xenix/286. Now I
don't use '286 systems any more. If no one else bothers to do a port to the
'286, I don't see how that's Larry's fault.
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