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ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the somebody-somewhere-freaks-out dept.

Noiser writes "ActiveState discontinues VisualPerl and VisualPython for Windows. Demand doesn't justify further development, they say. No, they don't mean to open-source these products, due to licensing problems with the inseparable MS Visual Studio integration code. Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..."

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  1. Re:Rub my penis and cause a rupture by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a minute there I thought this was just another example of perl code.
    My bet is its still compilable.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Welcome To Hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Visual Studio??? + Perl???

    Isn't that what bad software engineers are forced to use for eternity in Hell?

    Yeeeechhh!!!

    1. Re:Welcome To Hell by temojen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Visual Studio + lisp.

    2. Re:Welcome To Hell by raider_red · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's in the nineth ring. In the eighth, they just use Visual Studio.

      It's not the Perl that's hell, it's using it under Windows, which is hell in itself.

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      It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
    3. Re:Welcome To Hell by castlec · · Score: 4, Funny

      spell it correctly!!!
      it's lithp :o)

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      When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
    4. Re:Welcome To Hell by mslinux · · Score: 2, Funny

      (((((Visual Studio)))) (+) (((((((((((((((lisp))))))))))))))

    5. Re:Welcome To Hell by ScoLgo · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Which, oddly enough, is exactly what the Visual Studio team is developing next, in the form of F#..."

      So... if the circle of fifths naming convention holds true, the next iteration after that will be called 'B'.

      Oh wait...

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      "Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
  3. And I didn't even know they were gone. by radiotyler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..

    Uh, back to? Personally, I never left.

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    hi mom!
  4. And MS says that the GPL is viral by thinkliberty · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now all customers that used this code are stuck at the current version of Perl, never to be able to upgrade. ...And Microsoft calls the GPL viral?! Microsoft with the license they allowed activestate, to use there code with, would be called what? Radioactive code or nuclear code?

  5. Re:Good! by Ray · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well you *nix wussies can use your overblown IDEs like vi but we real men on Windoze just "copy con accounting.pl" and code away.

  6. Re:Excellent.. Who's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A barely used plug-in bites it and you wet your pants?

    Oh yeah, Microsoft is totally doomed.

  7. Now if only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now if only the Perl Community would abandon Perl support, the world would be a better place.

  8. Re:They what? Oh.... by tigersha · · Score: 2, Funny

    And vi is free as in syphilis

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    The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
  9. Re:Visual Studio? Is that like an Emacs mode? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Um, I did mention Emacs. You didn't think we all used it because it was such a brilliant Notepad substitute, did you?

    Yes, emacs saves me lots of typing. It's so convenient - instead of having to type out long class and method names like "foobar.query_frobnicate", all I have to do is type "fo", then press C-X-automatically-complete-this-class-name and hit enter, and it fills in the "oobar" bit automatically!