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When coding for Windows - use .Net - otherwise why are you using Windows?

There's some truth to that.

I have been holding out for Perl, because so many data-oriented things are just plain easier in Perl. Connecting to data sources, collating data (push @{ $group{$row->{key}} }, $row; is a beautiful thing), dealing with NULL/undefined values, pattern matching, and so on. Perl makes the easy things easy.

GUIs are more work in Perl than in .NET, sure. But WxPerl is quite good if you can work with the documentation (which is slowly getting better).

But when it comes to getting Windows system information, networking to Windows services, and packaging final products for delivery, .NET wins hands down. Perl is stuck in Unixland, with assumptions about where libraries are going to exist and what sorts of things users are expected to have installed.

I would far and away rather be developing on Ubuntu or some other *nix variant than on Windows. I had hoped that Perl would make Windows programming less painful. And in part, it does! But only so long as you have a full Perl distribution installed and don't have to mess too much with C compilers. (Ever try getting Curses.pm to work on Windows?)

I've been resisting giving in to the Dark Side and going over to C#.NET, but maybe it's time.


In reply to Re^2: Packaging Perl Programs (is) Painful by Sue D. Nymme
in thread Packaging Perl Programs (is) Painful by Sue D. Nymme

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