PERL - Anyone tried using this on Vista?

Hi Folks

Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder if it
would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone tried using PERL
with Vista?

Cheers

IDontBelieveIt wrote:
> Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
> if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
> tried using PERL with Vista?

Works fine - as long as you know what you are doing.

Install something like ActivePERL as the administrator... Maybe ActivePerl
5.12 is what you want.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
> if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
> tried using PERL with Vista?

Yes. Works fine.

Why didn't you just try it for yourself? There's nothing inherently
"unsafe" about it.

Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter experience
(!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!

Cheers


"Nil" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9DA316FE4D0DDnilch1@130.133.4.11...
> On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
> in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>
>> Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
>> if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
>> tried using PERL with Vista?
>
> Yes. Works fine.
>
> Why didn't you just try it for yourself? There's nothing inherently
> "unsafe" about it.

Hi

Many thanks for replying and for the useful info.

Cheers

"Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
news:e2OP$...
> IDontBelieveIt wrote:
>> Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
>> if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
>> tried using PERL with Vista?
>
> Works fine - as long as you know what you are doing.
>
> Install something like ActivePERL as the administrator... Maybe
> ActivePerl 5.12 is what you want.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter
> experience (!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!

Perl is just a scripting language. It doesn't do anything until you
evoke it, and even then it only does what you program it to do. I can't
imaging what kind of problem you think it would create.

I'm new to Perl so may be I misunderstood but, in order to do desktop
projects (as opposed to Web projects) I assumed I would have to install an
interpreter(?)

Cheers

"Nil" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9DA3620CBA085nilch1@130.133.4.11...
> On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
> in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>
>> Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter
>> experience (!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!
>
> Perl is just a scripting language. It doesn't do anything until you
> evoke it, and even then it only does what you program it to do. I can't
> imaging what kind of problem you think it would create.

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:31:13 +0100, "IDontBelieveIt"
<> wrote:

>I'm new to Perl so may be I misunderstood but, in order to do desktop
>projects (as opposed to Web projects) I assumed I would have to install an
>interpreter(?)
>
>Cheers
>
>"Nil" <> wrote in message
>news:Xns9DA3620CBA085nilch1@130.133.4.11...
>> On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
>> in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>>
>>> Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter
>>> experience (!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!
>>
>> Perl is just a scripting language. It doesn't do anything until you
>> evoke it, and even then it only does what you program it to do. I can't
>> imaging what kind of problem you think it would create.

Have you tried reading at perl.org ?

Hi Jim - many thanks. I'll now have to get down to rather a lot of
studying I think!

Cheers
John

"Jim" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:31:13 +0100, "IDontBelieveIt"
> <> wrote:
>
>>I'm new to Perl so may be I misunderstood but, in order to do desktop
>>projects (as opposed to Web projects) I assumed I would have to install an
>>interpreter(?)
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>"Nil" <> wrote in message
>>news:Xns9DA3620CBA085nilch1@130.133.4.11...
>>> On 26 Jun 2010, "IDontBelieveIt" <> wrote
>>> in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>>>
>>>> Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter
>>>> experience (!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!
>>>
>>> Perl is just a scripting language. It doesn't do anything until you
>>> evoke it, and even then it only does what you program it to do. I can't
>>> imaging what kind of problem you think it would create.
>
> Have you tried reading at perl.org ?