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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.

From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
June 16, 2006 13:40
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
m2lkrwsulw.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Sherm Pendley <sherm@dot-app.org> writes:

> On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote:
>
>> Perl has always sucked at desktop applications, mostly because we
>> can't deliver applications in the same way we do regular things.
>
> I'm not sure who you're referring to with that "we", but CamelBones
> users have been able to do precisely that on the Mac for a couple of
> years now. Windows and Linux are still catching up - as usual. :-)

It's all in the environment. Adam mentions App::GUI::Notepad but this
depends on perlWx, which is usually not present and far from easy to
install. Other applications need databases.

If the 'standard environment' would always provide a decent GUI and
database it would be much easier to create out-of-the-box
applications. Unfortunately, in the perl world, this is not yet the
case.

And yes, we're working on it.

-- Johan

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