Outline for a book on Perl on Windows

perl_on_windows.txt

Introduction
  Why Perl over Powershell?
  Quickstart                         # portable strawberry, install a module from cpan, run a oneliner

Perl distributions for Windows
  ActivePerl
  Strawberry Perl
  Cava                               # never seen anyone use this
  cygwin (only briefly)

Editors? Steal from perlfaq? Padre?  # Padre would be a good choice, since it can do syntax checking,
                                     # also notepad++ and komodo

Setting up the toolchain              # start > run > cmd > cpan # good to go. what else are you thinking here?

Perl one-liners at the command prompt # good idea, pointing out that q[] and qq[] are good will help

Command line programs
  Perl Power Tools
  DOS equivalents of Unix commands
  Cygwin                              # most of the gnu toolchain

Dealing with the Registry

Windows log and system files

Portability issues

Win32::API

Win32::OLE
  pjf's Minesweeper auto-game?       # link?

GUI programming?
  WxWidgets
  Prima                              # fairly new, but looks neat

Conclusion