[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[B. Estrade]

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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