I might ask - why do you want to learn Perl? Is it something for work? or is it something you just want to learn for yourself?

If the former - then find which platform is supported at work and learn the Perl on that. If the latter - then find the OS you are most comfortable learning on and to which you have easy access and go from there. Personally, I like using Perl for the scripting we have to do because I can write it on either Windows or Unix - test it there and then move it over to the other platform and it will function just fine. If you have to fight the OS while learning Perl - you will have a much harder time (in my opinion).

just my 2¢ :-)

In reply to Re: Effect of OS Platform choice for learning and doing Perl well by nimdokk
in thread Effect of OS Platform choice for learning and doing Perl well by Anonymous Monk

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