I think that would be very interesting. It might enable me to understand Perl a little better and learn how to use it.
"Robbie Allen (rallen)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On a related note, I'm working on a VBScript to Perl code converter.
Input some VBScript code and output the (roughly) equivalent Perl code.
I just started a couple of weeks ago, but should have something in a
month or so if anyone is interested.
Robbie Allen
http://www.rallenhome.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] scripting admin
>
> I'll second this. I've only run into one thing where I
> couldn't get Perl to work (deep, dark, ugly MAPI stuff...)
>
> Other than that, it's almost trivial to look at VBScript and
> convert it to perl.
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] scripting admin
>
>
> I say Perl...
>
> The activestate dist is great. I am not aware of anything off
> the top of
> my head you can do in vbscript that you can't do in perl. You may want
> to learn enough vbscript to convert vbscripts others have written to
> perl.
>
> Overall for really simple things vbscript may be easier at
> first glance,
> but as the complexity rises vbscript shows its issues and
> perl starts to
> shine.
>
> Grab Robbie Allen's AD Cookbook which has some perl in it, also his
> Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services has quite a bit
> of perl in
> it. Most everything I tend to post here in terms of scripts and do in
> general is perl.
>
> joe
>
>
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:32 PM
> To: ActiveDir (E-mail)
> Subject: [ActiveDir] scripting admin
>
> sorry for what is more of a personal advice question- i'm a
> perl guy and
> i was wondering if for proper windows scripting, should i
> learn VBscript
> or can i get away with most admining with perl and
> activestate. i run a
> couple of linux and unix servers, so perl makes sense, but would it
> behove me to learn VBscript or even VB to effectively script
> my win2k ad
> enviorment or can i get away with perl and its integer
> conversion et al
> and be a good admin mastering only one lang? thanks in advance
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