Re: talking to myself
  By: Maurice Kinal to Jason Cullins on Sun Feb 13 2005 12:24 pm

 > Hey Jason!
 > 
 > Feb 13 13:59 05, Jason Cullins wrote to Maurice Kinal:
 > 
 >  JC> idea.  I
 >  JC> have always found that when it comes time to debug, if you have to,
 >  JC> its always
 >  JC> a better idea to be organized. :)  Less headaches down the road..
 > 
 > Amen.
 > 
 >  JC> Yeah it takes a little bit longer to set it up that way, and yes it
 >  JC> can be a
 >  JC> pain in the butt to configure all the networks like that, but i say,
 >  JC> fix it now
 >  JC> and you won't have to be fixing it later.
 > 
 > Amen again.  Good to run across a Windows user who understands such concepts
 > for a change.  That doesn't happen very often.  So far you are one of the fe
 > Perl Windows users I have encountered, especially in Fido.
 > 
 > What do you think about it?  What made you initially jump through whatever
 > hoops it took to install a port and why would you stick with it if you do
 > decide to stick with Perl?
 > 
 > Life is good,
 > Maurice
 > 

Well i run IIS and Apache on my windows box, and i also have a linux box.. but
perl is perl all the same.  So with that being said, i have my MAIN server
production box on linux, since linux *IS* more stable, and i run all my testing
on the windows box, with the perl scripts and everything.

I remember installing perl the first time on windows.. was hard.. but once i 
got it installed, it was on like donkey kong.

perl is a good language for manuipulating strings and files which is a big deal
when it comes to doing things over the web.. plus the coding is actually pretty
easy.. i mean compared to some of the other languages i have written.. although
i have made VB work as a cgi portal for apache in windows.. That was a task
making VB write out to the STDIO interfaces... but once it did, i could make it
do whatever i wanted to do.. 

The same with perl, its so easy that i can manipulate and doing anything i want
to with it.  Very nice.. i learned perl original on linux.. hell i have a linux
perl irc server which helped me learn alot, and i have had other perl scripts
on my boxes which have helped me along the way.. if you only knew the amount of
stuff you could do with perl, you would crap all over yourself. :)


Jason

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