Similar things can happen in Unix as well if you're not careful with how you set up %ENV and where you modify it.

I don't think so. If you run a script on Unix and it mucks with ENV, then when it terminates, that doesn't affect your ENV. There is no global ENV in Unix, unlike Windows.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: Avoid headaches from Strawberry Perl 5.10.0 and binary SVK by dragonchild
in thread Avoid headaches from Strawberry Perl 5.10.0 and binary SVK by xdg

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