July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 40m
English
Perl is a high-level interpreted language that provides a great deal of power and flexibility for administering and managing Windows systems. When a user writes a Perl script, the Perl interpreter parses the script before executing the commands listed in the script. Other examples of interpreted languages include Visual Basic Script and JavaScript. On Windows systems, the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) is capable of interpreting Visual Basic Script (.vbs) and JavaScript (.js) scripts. However, WSH is native to Windows systems, meaning that it is part of the standard installation. Perl is not native to Windows systems and must be installed from a separate source. Fortunately, ActiveState[1] provides a freely ...
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