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Subject:  Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl
Date:  Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:57:44 -0700
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Brian Mathis wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2007 10:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT defaria DOT com> wrote:
>> Brian Mathis wrote:
>>> ActiveState Perl works very nicely (and the alternative is what, 
>>> vbscript?) on Windows.
>> No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and 
>> BTW, how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was 
>> Cygwin's again?
> It costs, nothing. zero. zilch. nada. free.
>
> I guess we both need to get our facts straight.
Thanks for letting me know. In any event I'd still much rather use an 
integrated and truer to Posix environment without all of those 
limitations and only one architecture tunnel vision... I also don't use 
Putty but rather just Cygwin's ssh. Nor do I use Reflections/X or any 
other commercial X Server - just Cygwin's X server. Again, Cygwin 
provides an integrated environment that is much like Unix/Linux, 
designed to work together and basically just works, as opposed to a 
hodge podge of random utilities from various companies who may or may 
not charge for the base product, but who are sure trying to sell you 
something, and who do not communicate well with other disparate 
utilities gathered together and each on their own patch cycle, etc. YMMV 
- I'll stay with Cygwin!
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution.


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