SPUG: Re: Results of Unix vs Windows Survey

[Richard Anderson]

C, awk and the shell (sh, ksh, bash) also come installed on most Unices, so
preinstallation may not completely explain why programmers choose a
particular language.  I don't deny that ease of installation and/or
preinstallation are a factor, but installing Perl on Unix or Windows is not
usually a big project.

Richard Anderson
Software Professional
Email: starfire at zipcon.net

Webmaster and Board Member
Seattle Unix Users Group, http://www.seaslug.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Howell" <showell at zipcon.com>
To: "Richard Anderson" <starfire at zipcon.net>
Cc: "Asim Jalis" <asimjalis at yahoo.com>; <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: SPUG: Re: Results of Unix vs Windows Survey


> Richard Anderson wrote:
> >
> > After some crude data-mining, I noticed that only 25% of the programmers
> > that use Perl on Unix use Perl on some other platform, whereas 40% of
the
> > programmers that use Perl on Windows use Perl on some other platform.
How
> > should this be interpreted?
>
> Perl comes installed on most Unix boxes.  (Maybe not from sysadmin's
> perspective always, but generally from user's perspective.)
>


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