You could run it on windows natively, but I'm leaning toward that not being idea.

Since the Mac is *nix based, and perl was original developed on unix, you might appreciate a unix-style implementation using Cygwin. Cygwin gives you a posixish-linuxish-gnuish type environment on windows (only 64bit these days), that also runs perl.

If you don't need to run perl to administer native windows, but just as an application platform, I'd suggest loading Cygwin (cygwin.org), and loading their perl (its also opensource/free SW).

In reply to Re: MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by perl-diddler
in thread MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Anonymous Monk

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