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Re: What is Active pearl

N_A — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:27:46 +0200

Ah! Missed that. Bad reading for my part. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: What is Active pearl

rbrunner — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:00:25 +0200

Uh, I think it's meant like that:

"Perl" is a general-purpose script language.

"Make" is specifically made for compilation environments, and is not a general scripting language.

Read this way, it makes sense, at least to me.

Re: What is Active pearl

N_A — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:39:42 +0200

"Perl is a general purpouse script language, make is specifically made for compilation environments, and is not a general scripting language."

There is nothing in the Perl language that makes it specifically for "compilation environments".

From http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

"Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even BASIC|PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk scripts into perl scripts."

And, ActivePerl is a Perl packaging done by a company by the name ActiveState: http://www.activestate.com/

Re: What is Active pearl

Numpty Alert — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:52:16 +0200

"What is active pearl ?"

What is google?

Re: What is Active pearl

alh — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:48:08 +0200

Swap:
not very accurate description.

Perl is a general purpouse script language, make is specifically made for compilation environments, and is not a general scripting language.

Actually, the symbian build system is also built upon "make" and makefiles.

But, they also have an extra layer of perl scripts around it that among (a lot of) other things generate the makefiles, and call "make"

What is Active pearl

swap — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:53:33 +0200

hi ,

Similar to makefile in linux ,which can be used to compile a program ,perl scripts does the similar task ,except that

they are written in perl.

Re: What is Active pearl

alh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:38:31 +0200

And for a more symbian specific answer:

The build scripts used to build your apps in the Symbian SDK is perl scripts.
Therefore you need perl.
The reason you need a specific version is that this is the version it is tested to work with, it is not guaranteed to work with any other version.
It might work. It might not work.

Just get the right version and you know it will work.

Re: What is Active pearl

Symbian_Neil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:22:21 +0200

http://perl.about.com/od/gettingstartedwithperl/p/whatactiveperl.htm
http://perl.about.com/od/gettingstartedwithperl/p/whatisperl.htm

a little more googling and you will get answers to all the above really

What is Active pearl

sameer.chaudhari — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:54:01 +0200

What is active pearl ?
Why it is require in symbian ? What it does ?
Why they require specific version , New Version r not compatible ?