From: "Chris Nehren" <c.nehren/beginn...@shadowcat.co.uk>
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Perl works the best and is the easiest to use on Unix or Unix-like
machines. If you're on Windows, get virtual machine software and
pick a Linux distribution (I use Debian).
This pretty unilaterally discards the efforts Adam Kennedy and others
have put into Strawberry Perl, and completely ignores business
requirements to run on Windows. While it may be nice to stubbornly say
"I refuse to work with Windows" (and I'm spoiled in that I have that
freedom as part of my employment), it's not always the case that others
have such freedom of choice. To be clear, if I had my way, there would
be no more Windows. But PHBs tend to want it for some reason I cannot
discern. So it's better to help those stuck with such decisions.
:-)
Well, not only PHBs decide to use Windows, but the intelligent bosses also.
Most businesses are not software/hardware companies, but companies with
different fields of activity that have employees which know very little
about computers, employees that probably didn't read a single page of manual
regarding the computers, however they need to be able to use the computer at
office as they can do it at home.
And, there are some fields where Windows is the best and Linux or Mac are
far behind, so some categories of users are forced to use Windows for this
reason.
That's why the portable languages and the languages that can make programs
easy to deploy have such a big advantage.
Octavian
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