About one year before Perl was invented (1987, as I understand it), I created a text-processing language of my own, named Parse-O-Matic. Like Perl, it ended up being a veritable Swiss Army Knife. However, it only has a few thousand users and I think it's time to admit defeat and switch to Perl.
As a beginner, I looked for a beginner's tutorial. The first "Hello world!" program advised me to use this command: perl first.pl That makes sense -- but I can't find perl.exe for WinXP. I found the open source for 5.8.0, which is nice, but I'd have to buy C++ to compile it! I realize that the open source lets me configure my own perl.exe to suit me, but as a beginner, I don't want to get that involved. All I want is the essential perl.exe (for WinXP) so I can start learning. Can you tell me where I might find such a beast? - Timothy Campbell http://www.parse-o-matic.com
