> > I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through "Learning Pearl", but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? > > Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? >
As the others have pointed out, you can install Perl on windows. You *might* be able to get it to run from a CD provided the drive letter was the same (but this is very theoretical, and might prove difficult). If you are at school there is bound to be a unix box of some sort around that will have it installed, ask around and see if you can get an account to play with Perl. If not at school, you could certainly get a cheap hosting account at an online hoster, pick one with shell access, and practice up your Perl that way, of course that would be more expensive than just buying a computer these days eventually. You could probably get a computer on Ebay for less than $200 and install Linux to avoid the M$ tax..... You might also visit a local Perl Mongers group and ask one of the members if you could have access to their machine, one of them is bound to have a server accessible from the internet and would consider giving another member an account provided you didn't abuse it. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
