[lug] Programming

[Joseph McDonald]

> Hello,
>   I need to write a app for windoz. I have only used perl
> on a Unix/Linux platform before. I don't want to use perl
> to make the windoz app, do to the lack to a perl interpretor 
> on most windoz boxen.
>   So, i have been fooling around with Visual Basic...
> This language is not nearly as elegant as PERL, and
> some of the concepts just seem like allot of work compared
> to the the same concept in PERL. So I was thinking of
> maybe trying Visual C++. I have seen allot of C code
> and, it looks easier and more logical. 
>  To get to the point, I have already spent a week playing with VB
> and I don't want to waste anymore time learning VB if I can
> come further and faster using visual C++.... So for someone
> with mostly just PERL exp. , what would be the most similar 
> language in concepts and syntax (to PERL), that will allow me to make
> GUI apps for windoz.

I think, if you wrote you app in Win32 perl you could 
simply statically compile it and negate the need for a 
perl interpretor on each of the clients. I haven't done
that personally (I'm strictly a unix admin) but sounds
like it may be a viable solution. Checkout the manpage
for perlcc. I have done that for unix systems that didn't
have perl installed.

	--joey