> 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.
I find this to be true also. Right now there's a mental chasm between being a normal Windows user, and venturing into the world of Perl... The more we make Perl un-"different," the more these users are likely to find it. Chris On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:51 PM, B. Estrade <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
