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  • Another datum (Score:1)

    by pjm (639) on 2009.10.29 1:43 (#71011)

    Just to add a little sweetness and light: I haven't used Windows in anger for almost ten years, but logged on to a Vista virtual instance, downloaded the all-in-one Padre+Strawberry msi installer, and everything was up and running in around 5 minutes, complete with a handy shortcut in the Start menu.

    I then typed

    use v10.5;
    say "hello world";

    saved the file, hit F5, and out came the, err "put". Beautiful...

    Congrats, from this perspective, to all involved.

    Now I have to remember how to coax CPAN on Windows to travel nicely through an authenticating proxy server. Yech...

    Paul

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