On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Raymond Moyers wrote:
   It will be a
cold day in hell before I let any perl code on any of my
 mainframes.  A lot of stuff I use on the mainframe doesn't have any
 equivalent in the UNIX world. 
 Linux 
zseriespenguins.ihost.com 2.2.16 #2 SMP Tue Jun 5 20:00:56 EDT 2001 s390
 [root /]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
 vendor_id       : IBM/S390
 [root@l007098 /]# perl --version
 This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for s390-linux
  I bet perl becomes bigtime on mainframes 
 
Your point is?
Peace...  Sridhar