Installation and configuration of the Perl development environment under Windows

Perl is a practical summary and reporting language that is popular with developers around the world, and although it was born and developed on Unix, it has a niche in the area of Windows programming.
　
Under the leadership of companies such as ActiveState, Perl began to develop steadily from the middle of 1995, not only adding standard Perl functionality, but also adding many Windows-oriented features such as OLE and COM integration.
　
In fact, all Perl programmers have been able to convince themselves that Perl applications written for UNIX servers can also run smoothly and stably after porting them to a Windows server, even though the fork implementation of this long-standing and most troublesome porting problem has been resolved.
　
And we have reason to believe that perl/windows integration will be further developed. The fact that Microsoft has become its primary sponsor since the beginning of the Windows version of Perl is enough to confirm Microsoft's commitment to Perl. Following the recent three-year investment agreement signed by Microsoft and ActiveState, Perl will undoubtedly be a part of future windows development.
　
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