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PerlNET Now Available in Perl Dev Kit 4.0
Lori Pike writes "ActiveState released the Perl Dev Kit (PDK) 4.0, which adds support for the Microsoft .NET Framework, Win 9x and HP-UX. Existing Perl scripts can now be turned into .NET components and used seamlessly in .NET Framework applications. Current users will find that PDK 4.0 creates Perl components on Windows that are 30% to 50% smaller.
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This is Good News (no, really, I mean it) (Score:2, Insightful)
Do we or don't we? Some will, so resisting it may be like shoveling back the ocean with a fork. I'm rather concerned about the .NET initiative since
it seems to merely increase Microsoft's power. However, with .NET, we could
write a Perl software service that people can access and utilize, even if
they don't have Perl installed. Perl seems to do a good job of "sneaking in
the back door", but maybe this can allow Perl to come out of the kitchen. I
don't know about you, but I am getting sick of people tel