On Jun 25, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
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.
...or finally you can try with a linux-live distribution like knoppix:
http://www.knoppix.org/
It comes with perl like every linux... and a lot of other stuff and...
no configuration problems.
You don't need to install anithing, you need only the 'permissions' to
reboot the computer from cd and play with it until the end of the day!
Remo
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