PERL - Anyone tried using this on Vista?

[IDontBelieveIt]

Hi Folks

Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder if it
would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone tried using PERL
with Vista?

Cheers

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
tried using PERL with Vista?

Works fine - as long as you know what you are doing.

Install something like ActivePERL as the administrator... Maybe ActivePerl
5.12 is what you want.

 

[Nil]

Ideally, I would much prefer to use PERL on my Vista PC but wonder
if it would be safer to use my older Win XP PC instead. Anyone
tried using PERL with Vista?

Yes. Works fine.

Why didn't you just try it for yourself? There's nothing inherently
"unsafe" about it.

 

[IDontBelieveIt]

Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter experience
(!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!

Cheers

 

[IDontBelieveIt]

Hi

Many thanks for replying and for the useful info.

Cheers

 

[Nil]

Hi - Thanks for replying. "try it for yourself" ? - from bitter
experience (!!), I find it best to ask other folk first!

Perl is just a scripting language. It doesn't do anything until you
evoke it, and even then it only does what you program it to do. I can't
imaging what kind of problem you think it would create.

 

[IDontBelieveIt]

I'm new to Perl so may be I misunderstood but, in order to do desktop
projects (as opposed to Web projects) I assumed I would have to install an
interpreter(?)

Cheers

 

[Jim]

I'm new to Perl so may be I misunderstood but, in order to do desktop
projects (as opposed to Web projects) I assumed I would have to install an
interpreter(?)

Cheers

Have you tried reading at perl.org ?

 

[IDontBelieveIt]

Hi Jim - many thanks. I'll now have to get down to rather a lot of
studying I think!

Cheers
John