alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley) (12/14/89)
We are switching from an VM/CMS OS to VMS over the next year and one of our problems is converting all our scripts, written in REXX, to some other scripting language. Given that we are going to also be running UNIX on some of our machines, it would be nice to have a consistent scripting language over both UNIX and VMS, Perl seems ideal for this. BUT, does anyone have any comments on the difficulties of adapting Perl to run under VMS? I suspect that it isn't a trival task (requiring modification to several features/calls of the language), perhaps a subset would be possible. Is there anyone out seriously conasidering porting Perl to VMS (It would be nice, Perl blows DCL right out of the water). Thanks for any comments you have. Alex Heatley Computing Services Centre Domain: alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz Victoria University of Wellington Path: ...!uunet!vuwcomp!rata!alex P.O Box 600, New Zealand. Trolls can often be found under bridges ... or in Computing Departments.
cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) (12/14/89)
In article <1989Dec13.190558.21867@comp.vuw.ac.nz> alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley) writes: >BUT, does anyone have any comments on the difficulties of adapting Perl to >run under VMS? I suspect that it isn't a trival task (requiring >modification to several features/calls of the language), perhaps a subset >would be possible. Indeed, a subset is possible. I have put together a somewhat crippled version of Perl on VMS, but it still seems usable. It's a little more crippled than it needs to be, but I was looking for expediency before adding functionality. Major omissions: it doesn't know how to deal with directories, nor anything that looks like a subprocess. Other very Unix specific stuff was also omitted. >Is there anyone out seriously conasidering porting Perl to VMS (It would >be nice, Perl blows DCL right out of the water). I'm going to put a little more work into my version before I send my changes back to Larry. Even as crippled as it is, my version can do some pretty amazing things. (If you have MultiNet, it can deal with TCP sockets, though not DECnet yet.) Carl Fongheiser cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu
weisberg@hpccc.HP.COM (Len Weisberg) (12/16/89)
Since the title is so general, I'll jump right in: Has anybody looked at getting (a subset of?) perl up on MS-DOS? - Len Weisberg - HP Corp Computing & Services - weisberg%hpccc@hplabs.HP.COM