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Free Resources for Windows Perl Development
jamie pointed out an important announcement in the Perl community. Adam Kennedy, known as Alias, developed Strawberry Perl to "make Win32 a truly first class citizen of the Perl platform world." Over the last year, major CPAN modules have used Strawberry Perl to get to releases that work trouble-free on Windows. But the tens of thousands of smaller modules on CPAN are lagging, in many cases because of lack of access to a Windows environment for development and testing. Now Alias has worked with Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab to provide for every CPAN author free access to a centrally-hosted virtual machine environment containing every major version of Windows. "More information (and press releases) will follow, the entire program under which this partnership will be run is so new it's only just been given a name, so some of the organisational details will ironed out as we go. But for now, to all the CPAN authors, all I have to add is... Merry Christmas. P.S. Or your appropriate equivalent religious or non-religious event, if any, occurring during the month of December, etc., etc."
Haven't used Win32 in over a decade. Never used MFC because it was total crap - like a lot of people, I ended up having to write my own abstraction classes since OWL wasn't much better.
Windows is dying. It's like GM. Bloated, pointless, only continuing to exist because "it's too big to fail" - in other words, on its' past momentum. Microsoft either has to break completely with the past (and in so doing, break Win32 compatibility), or continue to be the worlds' most popular malware enabler.
>> Free Resources for Windows Perl Development
The definitive one: http://python.org/