As a Perl user in a fully MS shop it has been my recent pleasure to finally have picked up an *nix box in the form of a new Apple PowerBook. I've since been poking around the innards of the OS and haunting the ADC site to try to get a handle on the motley collection of tools and dev languages that are hiding underneath that pretty hood. All my poking around has raised a few questions for any seasoned OS X developers out there:

• What are the advantages to using Perl over AppleScript or vice versa?
• Where does Perl fit into the OS X application programming framework?
• Do the Carbon API's or Cocoa framework take the place of some of the "glue" functions that Perl would have been used for when developing with C, C++ or Java?

I'm just trying to get an idea of what the best path is to learn *nix on OS X and the best use of Perl in that environment.

Cheers!

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