[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[Lanny Ripple]

I realize there are some unlucky souls that are required to work on
Windows.  If you aren't required to do so but that just happens to be the
platform you have then I'd suggest

* Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/)
* VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
* learning Puppet (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/#puppetpuppet) for
provisioning

You will then have an easily configured Linux based VM to run Perl on.


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Chris Blanc <cblanc at dionysius.com> wrote:

> >  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
> >> > --
> >> > Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack
> >> > traces                                        -- Bulat Shakirzyanov
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > Houston mailing list
> >> > Houston at pm.org
> >> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> >> > Website: http://houston.pm.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.dionysius.com/
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Houston mailing list
> >> Houston at pm.org
> >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> >> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Houston mailing list
> > Houston at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> > Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.dionysius.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Houston mailing list
> Houston at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20140308/dfbf8a79/attachment.html>