[nylug-talk] Perl Seminar NY Meets Tues Oct 17

[Ron Guerin]

James Keenan wrote:

> [Poster's inline comment:  Yes, I know this is about that other OS.  But
> learning Perl on Windows has been the bridge for many people to learn
> about Perl's native environment.  So save the flames.  Besides, the guy
> doing the presentation is a real alpha hacker.  --jk]

Just for everyone's benefit...
We're ok with this regardless because it falls under "Open Source".

While none of us wants to clog the list with Windows topics, Windows
exists, we need to deal with it.  My first exposure to GNU was through
MSDOS ports of some *nix utilities, like AWK and MicroEMACS.

In any event, when I used to run a Windows server of my own, Perl looked
to me like the best way to script the thing.  It seemed there's a wealth
of Windows functionality in CPAN, and the Linux admin who uses Perl now,
should not find it difficult to integrate Windows boxes into the
existing setup.

- Ron