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Outline for a book on Perl on Windows
Introduction
Why Perl over Powershell?
This isn't Learning Perl on Win32
Perl distributions for Windows
ActivePerl
Strawberry Perl
Cava
cygwin (only briefly)
Editors? Steal from perlfaq? Padre?
Komodo
Notepad++
Eclipse + EPIC
Setting up the toolchain
Things that don't work on Windows
Things that kinda work on Windows
Perl one-liners at the command prompt
Command line programs
Perl Power Tools
DOS equivalents of Unix commands
Dealing with the filesystem
Filenames on windows (cp-1252, UTF-16)
Working with external programs
The Windows process model
Dealing with the Registry
Windows log and system files
Portability issues
Win32::API
Win32::OLE
pjf's Minesweeper auto-game?
Win32::GUITest
DBI and ODBC
Perl under IIS?
GUI programming?
WxWidgets
Conclusion
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djzort commented Jul 25, 2012

editors...

-> notepad++
-> eclipse

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zipf commented Jul 26, 2012

Win32::GUITest

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