What ratio of Laotian or Thai users are developing new software on Windows XP?

I personally do not know any Lao or Thai programmers. At all. I know they are out there, but I'm not personally acquainted with any. I have casual acquaintance with a few who have dabbled in FoxPro, but they certainly did not do this for a living. I'm also aware that some universities nearby teach Java. Not being one of their students, I have no idea what else they might teach--probably they teach C++, Visual.NET, and perhaps Python? I would be highly surprised to find a Thai programmer of Perl, much less a Thai course in it. (I know several foreigners, however, who will be quite interested in my Thai module--and I would like for Thais themselves to have more tools that would interest them in Perl.)

This might shock you, but Windows XP is still in common use around here. Windows 7 is likely more common by now, but it should also be understood that I am not personally aware of a single Thai computer that I could confidently say runs an authentic (licensed) copy of Windows. It is not uncommon here to see a PowerPoint presentation before an audience interrupted by a message saying that the copy of Windows is not registered. People on this economy cannot generally afford genuine copies of Windows. Mind, I am not living in Bangkok where many more affluent people live.

You might walk into a school computer classroom in some places here and see desktop computers with floppy drives in them. In the more urban areas, you would not likely see this--but most of Thailand is rural. Sometimes their computer classrooms get stocked by the hand-me-downs of other schools--which are used until they can no longer be repaired. For both technical and student-management reasons, these computers may have no access to internet. The students' computer training in one school I visited last month consisted of learning the Windows Paint software--drawing pictures with it, and none of the computers in the classroom, except for that of the teacher, had internet access.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^4: How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by Polyglot
in thread How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by Polyglot

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