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 <[email protected]> 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 > -- > Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack > traces -- Bulat Shakirzyanov > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -- http://www.dionysius.com/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
