Posted by mbstevens on 11/18/63 11:22

Animesh Kumar wrote:
> mbstevens wrote:
>
>> Eric wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> There is lots of Perl documentation online, and you can get ActivePerl
>> for Windows at activestate.com. If you havn't programmed Perl before
>> there will be a learning period, but it will automate your task
>> completely. Similar facilities exist for Python, the language the
>> Google search engine was written in.
>
>
> Among the lot of documentation, I find the following most useful and
> succinct:
>
> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
>
> I tried installing ActiveState Perl but I didnt like it. It takes way
> too long ot install and doesn't runs properly on Win-XP with SP2.
> Instead I use perl inside Cygwin.

Hmm. Havn't tried it on Win since SP2 -- I would be interested in
knowing if anyone else is having trouble running Active State Perl on
Win with SP2.

> Soon I will get back to Linux like
> good old days.

An op system that comes with Perl, Python, and Common Lisp is much more
comfortable than one that comes with proprietary languages, all right.
You can buy a big hard disk fro $50 US these days, leave your XP on the
machine, and install 4 or 5 linux systems on the same machine. Just
study Grub and LILO.

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