[oak perl] Questions from a Newbie

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Tue Jan 20 19:00:10 CST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:50:19PM -0800, George Woolley wrote:
> An old friend of mine from New York City
> has become interested in programming
> and Perl in particular.
> 
> At first he was asking questions
> that I could respond to based on my experience.
> He's enjoying reading about Perl,
> however he now wants to try it out
> on Windows.
> I take this to be a good omen, however ...
> 
> Unfortunately, I have never used Perl on Windows.
> His main questions seem to be:
> (1) What Perl should he download?

ActiveState

> (2) What's a good editor for maintaining his code?

vim ;)

Seriously, whatever his favorite text editor is.

> (3) Would it better to use an IDE? 

Prob'ly not.

Cheers,
D
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