Where's the "IronPerl" Project?

pondlife writes "A friend asked me today about using some Microsoft server components from Perl. Over the years he's built up a large collection of Perl/COM code using Win32::OLE and he had planned on doing the same thing here. The big problem is that as with many current MS APIs, they're available for .NET only because COM is effectively deprecated at this point. I did some Googling, expecting to find quickly the Perl equivalent of IronPython or IronRuby. But to my surprise I found almost nothing. ActiveState has PerlNET, but there's almost no information about it, and the mailing list 'activity' suggests it's dead or dying anyway. So, what are Perl/Windows shops doing now that more and more Microsoft components are .NET? Are people moving to other languages for Windows administration? Are they writing wrappers using COM interop? Or have I completely missed something out there that solves this problem?"

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Re:Perl in decline, at least here

[somersault]

That's nice.

You could, however, moderate them according to the content of their current post regardless of how you feel about them as a person. I even modded up one of my 'freaks' last week. I don't give a shit about personal vendettas.

If you mean you mod posts down as overrated when you feel the content doesn't deserve the karma bonus, I wouldn't have so much problem with that.

People can be ignorant on certain topics while knowledgeable in others. I know I have plenty of gaps in my knowledge of the world, but I like to learn which is why I am here in the first place.

People can also have bad days when they end up losing their rag and end up posting flamebait or trolling a group of people they see as morons. There may be no real justification for such childish behaviour, but downmodding a person's posts just because you don't like that person is even more childish IMO.