[Gllug] just a quick question

Minty mintywalker at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 10:55:45 UTC 2006


On 2/12/06, Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
>
> > You've been living in the desktop Linux world for too long. Perl is
> > *far* from omnipresent.
>
> Perl has been a standard component of AIX for about 7 years and, IIRC,
> of Solaris for about the same (I don't have any old Solaris
> installations, it's certainly there in 9). I'd be very surprised if it
> hasn't been in HP/UX for a similar time.

Yeah, but afaik our production boxes at work don't have a C compiler
on them.  Not because it isn't supplied, but because it is actively
removed during the build process for security reasons.
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