The first image of strawberry perl

Well,A 100% Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same as Perl everywhere else; Today, I will begin with strawberry perl now. The following statement will give us a more clear representation about Strawberry Perl:

     "Strawberry Perl' is a perl enviroment for Microsoft Windows containing all
     you need to run and develop perl applications. It is designed to be as close
     as possible to perl enviroment on UNIX systems. "

First of all, I download the installer from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html, because my system is 64bit, so I chose "strawberry-perl-5.12.3.0-64-bit.msi". After the installation finished, I reboot my computer.

Second, It's time to check whether the installation of Strawberry perl is ok or not.

I created a simple program with  text editor  notepad++, and named the program "hello_world.txt", the contents like this:      

        

 print "Hello, world!\n";

And then I run the perl command in the cmd,

c:\strawberry\programs>perl hello_world.txt
Hello, world!

It print the "Hello,world!"! As a result,perl is installed well. BTW, my operating system is win7.

Form now on I will begin the journey of perl with the wonderful  book:

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Learning Perl, Sixth Edition

by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix

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There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away. And yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts, and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame

---Charles Kingsley,English historian and novelist.