On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:58:39 -0500 Mike Flannigan via Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 9/16/2014 1:02 AM, Zakariyya Mughal via Houston wrote: > > > > Heheh, I'm still in university and I'm showing people Perl tricks > > that blow their minds. People these days just don't use dynamic > > languages to their full capability. They just learn the basics and > > stop. :-P > > > > I just went to Houston Techfest[*] this weekend (as I have for a > > number of years now) and I'm mostly seeing C# and JavaScript. There > > used to be a larger Java presence and even some Ruby, but that has > > seemed to waned. I'm wondering, would anyone want to present some > > Perl there next year? I think I may have got someone interested in > > looking at DBIx::Class. > > > > Also, have any of you checked out PowerShell? It's got a very terse > > syntax. I may have to steal some of it for Perl. > > > > Cheers, > > - Zaki Mughal > > > I didn't know I had PowerShell on this Win7 machine > of mine. I'm watching tutorial 1 of 5 right now. This > guy sure gets excited about things that don't seem all > that cool to me, but it sure is cool to him. He is easily > impressed. > > I guess this PowerShell is a little bit better than the > command prompt I am using now, but not much better in > my opinion. I really need to find a better one. Last century, when I used to work in Windows, I used the Take Command shell from JP Software. (I had actually used their 4DOS before that.) A quick check on-line shows that Take Command still exists: http://jpsoft.com/take-command-windows-scripting.html G. Wade > > Mike > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -- C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli. -- Damian Conway _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
