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Postings from June 2006
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:32:11AM +0200, demerphq wrote: > Yes, core perl support for Win32 is much less than what it should be, > which in turn means all the linux programmers who dont have a clue > about how windows work[1] end up just coding as tho their code will > run on *nix regardless, and therefore their code doesnt work when it > gets run on Win32. Linux programmers who don't have a clue write code that doesn't even work on real Unix. > The solution to this problem is to improve core support for OS > abstraction. Something ive been advocating and sending patches in for No, I'm not convinced that it is. Surely down this road lies lowest common denominator? How does this differ from cross-platform GUI toolkits, which seem to generate quite a lot of comments about how they don't have the look-and-feel of native apps, for any given platform. Nicholas Clark