zOS, OS/390, Perl, and ancestors

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Apr 22 13:37:04 2002

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Passer, Michael W. wrote:

> And, anyway, wouldn't MVS, OS/390 or zOS, or whatever IBM marketing is
> calling it this week run Perl just fine under its POSIX layer (OMVS)?

Yes, but the POSIX layer under z/OS is a flaming pile of dog shit. You're
better off running something native.

Peace... Sridhar

> >> On April 22, Raymond Moyers wrote:
> >> > I bet perl becomes bigtime on mainframes
> >>
> >> This frightens me.
> >>
> >> -Dave.
> >
> > The 60 Billion fold increase in function ?
> >
> <snip>
>
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