in reply to Win32 and Perl
I also work in win32 env some time. I use strawberry as my first gun but some things strawberry makes very not fun, namely Image::Magick. Just yesterday I had a problem installing DateTime::TimeZone under cpanp.. The *DATA filehandle is implemented wrong so tests that involve *DATA and POE fail too. Overall it is very powerful but I'd have to say it requires a programmer with more than the casual interest VB requires.
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