Dear brothers and sisters!

I think, you have alreadey known about Microsoft .NET Framework and a project of ActiveState PerlNET.
Maybe someone uses this tool or is planning to do it. If it is, please, share your opinions about advantages and disadvantages using Perl and .NET together and it makes sense to stady PerlNet.

I found a book Programming Perl in the .Net Environment and it leaded me to ask you this question.

In my mind, I prefer to use Linux and Open Source software (I removed Windows from my computer complitely month ago and I'm happy to use Linux :-))) ). And so, I don't like Microsoft and its software for a variety of reasons. I prefer the good old Apache, Perl, mod_perl, Mason, Embperl to use IIS, ASP, COM etc. 

      
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Re: Perl and .NET
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 03, 2003 at 10:37 UTC

    Of course you don't have to run Windows to use .NET anymore as Mono http://www.go-mono.com has reached a fairly good level of completeness.

    IMO .NET is quite a good development for Perl programmers as it emphasizes things that thing that Perl can do quite well such as XML and Web Services and de-emphasizes some Microsoftisms (such as DCOM) that are quite difficult to deal with properly in Perl, thus making interoperability between Perl programs running on non-MS systems and .NET applications a real possibility, whereas before it was always a struggle.

    Also the regular expression syntax is as far as I can tell almost completely compatible with Perl's which has got to be a good thing for a Perl programmer who chooses (or is forced ) to learn C#. 

    /J\

    Moved from reaped dup parent - dvergin 2003-07-03

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