Probably, W2K is not a choice our newbie has made, but is a choice someone at his job made for him.

I think you are more on target suggesting Cygwin. I use W2K, because it's the best Windows OS, and I have to use Windows at work. But that doesn't mean that I'm not using Perl, running Emacs, using Cygwin, Ghostscript, serving web pages with Apache and mod_perl, etc, etc.

We monks keep repeating the mantra 'Use the right tool for the job' (and for good reason), and if you work in an office where you need to continually interact with other Windows users, pass Office documents back forth, or develop for the Windows platform, W2K becomes the best tool for the job.

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when you say a Unix operating system, you mean MacOS X right? right? ;)
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In reply to Re: (Advocacy Good but...)Perl Dumbass needs a hand-holding by buzzcutbuddha
in thread Perl Dumbass needs a hand-holding by tacojohn

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