[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[Chris Blanc]

>  I think that if this sort of knowledge was more accessible, then a larger group of people
> would start to do things on Windows with Perl.

I find this to be true also.

Right now there's a mental chasm between being a normal Windows user,
and venturing into the world of Perl...

The more we make Perl un-"different," the more these users are likely
to find it.

Chris



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:51 PM, B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com> wrote:
> And it makes perfect sense to target so many users. I have had friends who
> are lawyers and traders ask me how hard it'd be to do
> <insert-simple-thing-with-Perl> to say, a Word doc (s/// over many docs) or
> Excel spreadsheet (querying, etc). My response is, geez....if you knew Perl
> it'd be a breeze.  I think that if this sort of knowledge was more
> accessible, then a larger group of people would start to do things on
> Windows with Perl.  My lawyer friend was a computer whiz back in high school
> - he was never more than 5 ft away from his giant DOS book.
>
> Brett
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:40 AM, 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.
>>
>> 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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