Answer: whichever one you're comfortable with.

In fact, that could be a Windows box, Mac OS X, VMS or any other OS you want to hack on. If you really want to learn Perl and not get distracted by a bunch of fiddling around and learning a new OS, learn Perl on the OS you know the best. That way, instead of figuring out why your video card uses 8K stacks but your OS only supports 4K stacks*, why your shiny new editor won't indent properly or you command line doesn't autocomplete on tab, you'll be learning the joys of map versus foreach.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

* I'm not bitter. No. Not at all.

In reply to Re: Suggested OS for Perl Hacking by Ovid
in thread Suggested OS for Perl Hacking by geekondemand

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