On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:05 PM, s...@missionstclare.com wrote:
> I use Perl on my own machine to assemble HTML files (no networking stuff). My
> current machine is a Mac running OSX Tiger. The MacOS doesn't seem friendly
> to Perl, so I want to change to something that won't make me feel like
> throwing it out the window.
>
> What hardware and OS might be best for my use? I'd prefer a laptop to a
> desktop. (I once worked for Sun Microsystems, so I'm comfortable with UNIX.)
But Mac OS X _is_ Unix. What exactly do you mean by "The MacOS doesn't
seem friendly to Perl"? If you're messing around with the system Perl, you
shouldn't be. If you're trying to install Perl somewhere else, I know that
Tiger can give you some problems. If you can upgrade, Snow Leopard is much
better.
If you can't upgrade your OS, you should really try installing
Perlbrew. That has made my programming life an order of magnitude less
frustrating. Give it a try!
As far as hardware goes, you don't need to upgrade it to run Perl. You
don't say which Mac you have, but as long as you're not running a production
server with it, whatever you have should work fine. However, if you can max
out the RAM, I would at least do that.
Marc
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