[Omaha.pm] perl

[Jay Hannah]

On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:35 AM, "Klinkebiel, David L" <dklinkebiel at unmc.edu> wrote:
> After considering everything I think I will leave my Strawberry perl on my laptop and use it for initial learning, etc. and use a text editor like TextPad/Notepad I have already installed to write scripts and forget the fancy editors which require another learning curve.

Sounds like a plan. 

> Once I develop scripts I plan to run them on the UNIX server here on campus anyway which will take care of any add ins needed.

-nod-  You might find your development efforts hindered if your development environment is missing bits. But you can always see how it goes and adjust as needed. 

> Have you ever known of anybody using a tablet computer to write scripts or even run perl. I see that Microsoft is going to release the Surface Windows 8 Pro that will be able to handle scripting languages like perl, Python etc. Thanks again for the info. I will probably evolve through this process.

I know a couple developers who do all their development from an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard -- but they're merely using the tablet to ssh TO Linux servers and develop there. I've not heard of anyone actually doing development ON a tablet. Any tablet with a keyboard (iOS (iPad), Android, Windows) should be fine for ssh'ing to a development server. 

I hope that helps,

j