A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread Ron Smith
I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through "Learning Pearl", but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line

Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread u235sentinel
I haven't used it myself however I understand there is "Active Perl" for Windows available. I don't have any details but perhaps you could google for it or someone here could give you directions. Ron Smith wrote: I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal c

Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Jun 25, 2004, at 1:25 PM, u235sentinel wrote: I haven't used it myself however I understand there is "Active Perl" for Windows available. I don't have any details but perhaps you could google for it or someone here could give you directions. No need to do this as it is available from http://w

Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through "Learning Pearl", but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-li

Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread Remo Sanges
On Jun 25, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: I'm in a situation wherein I want to brush up on my 'Perl', but have no personal computer. I'm currently reading my way through "Learning Pearl", but can't do the exercises because I only have access to 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl i

RE: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread Bob Showalter
Ron Smith wrote: > ... I only have access to > 'Windows' machines that do not have Perl installed at all. > Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ and install ActivePerl (free). > Is Perl small enough to > be installed on a fl

Re: A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-26 Thread Damon Allen Davison
Alternative to all the other suggestions, you could get a shell account with one of a number of providers like www.freeshell.org and use Perl from there. I think there may be some restrictions on Perl at the basic membership levels, but I think it's safe to say that most such providers have P