[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:40:50 -0600
Chris Blanc <cblanc at dionysius.com> wrote:

> 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.

Hey Chris,

I understand where you're coming from, although I haven't had to work
in Windows in quite a few years.

You might want to check out the site to see if you can send any of
these suggestions to brian. It might be worthwhile to see if there's
something he could use.

G. Wade

> 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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