ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python

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ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 15, 2005 @10:22AM 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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Re:Rub my penis and cause a rupture by LiquidCoooled · 2005-12-15 10:26 · 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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Welcome To Hell by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-15 10:27 · 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 · 2005-12-15 10:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Visual Studio + lisp.
2. Re:Welcome To Hell by castlec · 2005-12-15 11:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  spell it correctly!!!
  it's lithp :o)
  
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3. Re:Welcome To Hell by mslinux · 2005-12-15 11:34 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  (((((Visual Studio)))) (+) (((((((((((((((lisp))))))))))))))
4. Re:Welcome To Hell by ScoLgo · 2005-12-15 11:59 · 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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And I didn't even know they were gone. by radiotyler · 2005-12-15 10:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..

Uh, back to? Personally, I never left.

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Re:Good! by Ray · 2005-12-15 11:09 · 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.
Re:They what? Oh.... by tigersha · 2005-12-15 21:15 · Score: 2, Funny

And vi is free as in syphilis

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