Michael L Gueterman wrote:
>   I stopped by the bookstore this afternoon, and picked up
> the second edition of O'Reilly's PERL Programming book.
> It was published Sep. 96,and does cover version 5.  FWIW,
> I'll let everyone know my thoughts on it in a week or so.

Careful with perl v5 features, it is "funky".  Mark has sent me a build
of it that requires some serious tweaking of the posix libraries to get
dynamic loading to work.  The unix variant uses shared libraries, Mark
devised a workaround using intrinsics to dynamically load routines from
an XL, but this is decidedly "non-trivial" in implementation.  If you
aren't using this (one example, 'use SOCKET;') no problem, but the more
exotic perl5 enhancements (dynamic loading, autoloader dependencies)
are still shaky.

On the plus side, particularly for web folks, the old CGI.pl (or ph?)
library works fine, as does the newer module CGI.pm.

The rest of perl works fine, as far as I know.  The newer autoloader
stuff is questionable, but works in Mark's latest build.  What we need
now is an IMAGE.pm library of image calls :-)

Jeff