[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-01, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-12-01, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> 
>>> What ELSE is in there that I no longer need to install???
>>> 
>>
>> I'm so tempted to say PERL ....
>>
>> Ooops, guess I already did ...
>>
>>:-)  <-- don't miss it
>
> Actually, you may joke, but you have a point (at least for new development).
>
> I've known Perl for about a decade now, Python for 2-3 years less than
> that and PHP for about 5 years.
>
> I've come to regard Perl as a legacy scripting language these days.
> For any website stuff I do as part of employment I use PHP. Outside
> of employment (and at work when it's not website related) I use
> Python.
>

I should point out this is outside of VMS (it's on Linux and Windows).

On VMS, given it's a core production environment (so I have to use
something HP will support as part of the support contracts) and given
the types of tasks involved, I usually just use DCL.

Simon.

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