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:No one made it cause no one cares

[timmarhy]

nonsense. windows is very very firmly entrenched in corporate IT. a more likely explanation is that it's an odd combination that no one cares about. perl really isn't all that great anymore, it's syntax is more complex and it's got no speed or other advantages over the other 10+ languages that can fill the gap.

and before you start ranting about windows is a poor web platform http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html.

Amazing

[Vexorian]

A perl dev asks Microsoft to please embrace it.

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