And it makes perfect sense to target so many users. I have had friends who are lawyers and traders ask me how hard it'd be to do <insert-simple-thing-with-Perl> to say, a Word doc (s/// over many docs) or Excel spreadsheet (querying, etc). My response is, geez....if you knew Perl it'd be a breeze. I think that if this sort of knowledge was more accessible, then a larger group of people would start to do things on Windows with Perl. My lawyer friend was a computer whiz back in high school - he was never more than 5 ft away from his giant DOS book.
Brett On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Blanc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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