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Yes sir, we’ve got trouble.. with a capitol T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for Perl…

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/04/21/win32ole.html

I know. It’s been around forever.. the elephant lurking in the corner. Two technologies that I’ve used extensively on their own, but somehow never mixed.

Until today. 😉

I only publish the link because I’m sure a lot of my three readers are perlsters, and perhaps have never thought about how powerful a tool perl can be in win32 land. I first noticed some of it’s capabilities when writing a perl script to do symlink management for my girlfrancée. It’s capable of automating filesystem manipulation in ways that aren’t even easy – or obvious – in MFC or .NET. Yes, the digital duct tape language knows no bounderies. (Thanks, in part, to the good people over at ActiveState)

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One Response to “Yes sir, we’ve got trouble.. with a capitol T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for Perl…”

  1. ClintJCL Says:
    February 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    I haven’t used perl under anything but win32 in the 2000s 🙂 ActiveState rules… I Just wish I could get rid of the DLL error that pops up and stops most of my code until I click ‘ok’, but it would require re-installing perl from scratch and i’m not really willing to do that because some of the libraries i depend on are really hard to get installed if the activestate people didn’t make a package for it (which they haven’t, for a lot of CPAN)

    i was amazed i could follow that article 🙂

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