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dragonchild has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to write a Sudoku puzzle generator (similar in look'n'feel to Minesweeper) for my father for Christmas. He's on Win32, so I need to write something that feels like Minesweeper. Problem is that I don't know squat about Win32 programming, GUI development, and/or Win32 packaging/installation.

So, here's what I'm looking for:

For the first, I'm looking for ease of development. For the second, I'm looking for ease of installation.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?