Re: Strawberry Perl Guide

The differences between Strawberry Perl and ActiveState Perl are fairly minor, and (if at all) only concern module installation, as Strawberry Perl uses the "normal" way of CPAN (or App::cpanminus), while ActiveState Perl provides you with a nice clicky tool, prebuilt modules and commercial support.

If you are starting out with Perl, it basically makes no difference which one of the two you use. If you feel that your book is far more geared towards ActiveState Perl, then by all means use ActiveState Perl. The "hardness" will not come from the Perl distribution you choose, but from learning programming.

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Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2011 at 09:31 UTC
Thanks Corion, exactly what I needed to hear, on with ActivePerl!	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2015 at 05:28 UTC
So you need to download and install both to get the manual... ridiculous	[reply]
Re^3: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2015 at 06:26 UTC
So you need to download and install both to get the manual... ridiculous yes, its ridiculous how you believe that for some reason ActiveState Product Documentation Perl programming documentation - perldoc.perl.org ...	[reply]
Re^4: Strawberry Perl Guide by SimonSaysCake (Beadle) on Apr 20, 2017 at 15:06 UTC
The ActiveState documentation is not really online. That link just takes you to some info about their install and then suggests using the installed HTML files or just going to perldoc.org. Other options are good old CPAN since, for most modules, you can also view their pod documentation. And also the bright and shiny metacpan site. -s1m0n-	[reply]