From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T04:40:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Oh, The Horror!

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> I'm having to rewrite a bunch of broken Perl code.  I would be converting 
> it to Ruby, but I haven't been able to get Ruby to work correctly under

Can you narrow down the failure cases?

I remember AIX does some things differently, but I can't remember
what.  ISTR that you can't build GCC on it that easily, and you need
to get a GCC binary, but this is from
wasn't-really-paying-attention-at-the-time memory, and a few years
back.  But, if my brain isn't totally addled, your results may
depend on how you built ruby.

Maybe someone can confirm or deny this before you do anything
drastic.

> AIX.  This is frustrating.
> 
> Also, I find myself thinking in Ruby and translating the code into Perl.

Tricky one to fix, that. :-)
> 
> -- Matt
>
         Hugh