I'm a certified free-range old fart who, back in the day, wrote a few cubic yards of passably decent Perl. I retired utterly ~13 years ago and now,apparently in my twilight years, I have a need to pick it up once more.

My bookshelf and any attendant skills are woefully dated and I seek guidance, a direction, a trail head, to get back up to speed as quickly as possible.

I downloaded and installed Strawberry perl, it seemed just as good as anything else, but I seem to be missing the Tk piece. Does it still exist? Has it been replaced, hopefully by something a bit less primitive? I can't seem to locate a Windows (gag, I spent far too many years wrangling code on the big iron not to still hold PC's in general and Windows in particular in contempt) binary of Tk anywhere.

Ultimately I need to produce a standalone Windows (most any version from XP on) .exe sufficient to be run by idiots. A rather complex application, that being the challenge

So good people, where is a starting place, a jumping off point, for once such as myself?

In reply to General advice desperately needed by twv

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