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[harry d brown jr]

Chua Wen,

Perl is VERY powerful and faster than shell's.

Get a newer version here:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.8.0/

live free or die
harry

[Chua Wen Ching]

I think the link is not working. It displays cannot find server. Is there any tutorial on perl? Can i code perl on any platform maybe Windows, Linux, Unix, mac, etc.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

You were running 10.20, right? Get my 10.20 port from https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn

And - yes - it is *very* worthwhile learning perl. Perl comes with extensive on-line documentation, but the O'Reilly books "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl 3rd ed" are a very good resource.

Online help can be found on http://www.perlmonks.org and the docs will be available on http://www.perldoc.com/ and the FAQ's on http://perlfaq.cpan.org/

Have FUN!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

perl will run on virtually *any* platform :)

for win32 (no cygwin) you could try ActivePerl from http://www.activestate.com

If you however want to make real use of a win32 box, install cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com which includes both perl5.6.1 and 5.8.0 (and a full X11 client and server environment)

For Linux there is a welth of ports available.

Mac-OS is fully supported, but you'd have to go start digging youself for that from http://www.cpan.org because I have no Mac. The ports available from ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/ports/ are not always the most recent. Ongoing searches migh give you better versions.

[Chua Wen Ching]

Thank you procura.