On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everybody -
>
> I have a clean copy of XP in a virtualbox and I can confirm that this does
> indeed run. It even has a Term::Readline installed, so pressing UP and DOWN
> let me scroll through my previously keyed lines. I get a few error messages;
> in particular it has some issues loading parts of PDL and states that this
> is a plain-old-Perl REPL (hence the perl> prompt below), but I can still do
> this calculation:

It checks to see if the startup file was loaded, and if not, assumes that
PDL is not present.  I guess the logic could be improved somewhat.
The startup file should be able to be hand-added to the list of files being
"parpacked".

--Chris

> perl> p sum(sequence(20))
> 190
>
> The documentation system is missing, probably due to the load issues, but I
> think this is a great first step. I do not have time to work heavily on this
> right now, but I will explore much more in the coming months.
>
> Good work, Mark!
> David
>
> P.S. I thought I sent this out yesterday, but it looks like something screwy
> happened with my internet connection when I tried to send it then.
>
> --
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
>
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