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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 16, 2002
- Total Downloads: 352,547
- Downloads last week: 918
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From ActiveState :ActivePerl is a 'merge' of the two popular Perl ports. It has the best of both, plus more: a merge of ActiveState Perl Object technology into core Perl; support for standard extension mechanisms such as MakeMaker; easy installation and management of modules and extensions with Perl Package Manager; binaries for most CPAN modules, available from ActiveState's repository (including TK and GD); updated FAQs; and complete, integrated online help in HTML.
Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. The ActivePerl package has all you'll need to get Perl up and running, even with a Web server. It includes Perl for Windows; the binary of the core Perl 5.8.0 distribution; Perl for ISAPI, an IIS plug-in that makes Perl CGI lightning fast; PerlScript, an ActiveX scripting engine with a Perl brain; and the Perl Package Manager, a Perl extension installer and manager. In Version 5.8 Support has been enabled for large file access on all platforms, meaning that file manipulation facilities within Perl can cope with files larger than 2GB or 4GB. Many new modules are included as a standard part of Perl.
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User reviews of ActivePerl 5.8
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 12 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: ActivePerl 5.8
Pros: Perl written on Windows runs on Unix, too, and vice versa. Brings sensible scripting, modularity, error checking and branching to DOS.
Cons: Database connectivity packages are unavailable, it appears, without a compilation from source.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ActivePerl 5.8
Summary: The distribution is failry stable, and works almost like the unix versions with perl, so you won't get any platform-compatibility problems except in the cases of databases etc. PPM is quite convenient for installing packages. However, it's not that ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ActivePerl 5.8
Summary: Easy to install, free and works perfectly. With this you can forget about the non user friendly OS's link linux.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ActivePerl 5.8
Summary: I got all I wanted!!!
This packeage includes everything you need to writre in perl! It even makes it possible to write one-liners in your dos!!!
You can download the "Crimson editor" (or any other simple editor), and together, you... read more >> -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ActivePerl 5.8
Summary: It works and it is free.
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