On Sunday 23 November 2008 12:58:06 pm David Ehresmann wrote: > What is the difference between learning perl on windows vs. unix?
Perl was originally developed on UNIX and was later made available for Windows. Perl on UNIX is in its natural environment. Perl on Windows is in a modified environment. All Perl functionality works on UNIX. Some Perl functionality does not work on Windows. Perl is completely available free with all of its bells and whistles on any UNIX or Unix-like system. Linux is free (and legally licensed) to download, use and distribute (free or for charge). Why use software for your own use that you have to pay for (or steal) when you can get free software that works just as well or better then all that commercial proprietary software? VMWare was mentioned in another post, the problem with VMWare is the free apps will not let you create a VM, only run an existing one. If you don't already have a VM the free software does you no good. VMWare works on Linux and Windows. VirtualBox is now available free and works on Linux, Windows and several other platforms. You can easily create a VM and run it using VirtualBox. You can run VMs created with VMWare in VirtualBox. -- Stealth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
