[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[Chris Blanc]

This is awesome. I don't care if Perl isn't the trendy web language,
because as far as I can tell all of the trendy web stuff is worthless
anyway, but I think it's a great language for gluing together an
operating system. I enjoy Windows but tend to use it through a mixture
of the CLI and Perl, simply because GUIs are inherently inefficient
for many (but not every) task. I would suggest a focus on how to
integrate Perl with the Windows interface, e.g. adding to right-click
menus, drag-n-drop, automated changes to Windows config/registry and
making common scripts easily available. There's also a lot of
web-based stuff that Perl is useful for, such as removing 80-column
line breaks in Windows txt files and converting Linux or Macintosh
(ewwww) text files to Windows format.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:51 AM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
> brian d foy is working on a new book. He has set up a website for
> discussing the topic and getting input from the world.
>
> http://www.windowsperl.com/
>
> Since we have a few people who ask about these topics, I thought it
> might be helpful.
>
> G. Wade
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