Hi David-

Message received! :)

Frankly, the numbers don't currently add up for us to do this. Not least of
which is the huge issue of effectively developing a variant of Perl that
would work on .NET. We've worked with Microsoft and developed of both
PerlNET and PerlASPX as highly compatible ways of taking Perl code to .NET.

Ultimately, taking Perl truly to .NET would likely break compatibility with
much of CPAN modules (the CLR and its security imposes requirements that
prevent Perl from working naturally). Hence the most viable solution is
probably to create a Perl-like language (P#?) that breaks away from CPAN --
and consequently wouldn't actually be Perl any longer by most people's
reckoning. ActiveState could provide tools for such a language, but is not
in the business of creating new languages.

In the meanwhile PerlNET is the best way to take Perl code to .NET, and it's
part of the PDK. PDK is integrated with Visual Perl. Both hold compatibility
with Perl to be most important.

Thanks very much for your comments.

-Matt

Product Manager
ActiveState

-----Original Message-----
From: visualperl-discuss-bounces@[...].com
[mailto:visualperl-discuss-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of
David Christensen
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:09 PM
To: 'Eric Promislow'
Cc: visualperl-discuss@[...].com
Subject: RE: [Visualperl-discuss] FW: Visual Studio ASP.NET web
applicationsusing ActivePerl, VisualPerl, and PDK

> > I downloaded and tried the demo of PerlASPX, but it didn't seem to 
> > integrate into Visual Studio.  Is it supposed to, and I just messed 
> > up or was confused?

Eric Promislow wrote:
>  No, it doesn't integrate into Visual Studio.  We haven't yet built an 
>  ASP.Net-aware project for Visual Perl yet either.

OK.  Please tell your product strategy people that at least one developer
wants to be able to use Perl in VS .NET to create anything that can be
created with C#, VB, etc. -- e.g. make Perl a first-class VS language.


>  Hope this helps,

Yes!  Thanks.  :-)


David

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