Re^2: Installation on windows using perl

Blasphemy? Are we going to tell Red Hat users to stop using rpm and Debian users apt-get? Using the preffered packaging tools on a platform is just common sense. Even ActiveState Perl has an MSI installer. Blapshemy would be recommending Python or Ruby! ;-)

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(OT) Re^3: Installation on windows using perl by Argel (Prior) on Jul 20, 2007 at 21:11 UTC
Of course the real question is would recommending Haskel be blasphemy?! ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: Installation on windows using perl by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 20, 2007 at 22:32 UTC
Perl, Ruby, Python, Haskel? I tell you, it is al luxury nowadays! When I was young we installed programs by `poke`-ing machine code in hex directly into RAM, which was already a luxurious improvement over hardwiring the magnetic core memory units. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply] [d/l]