I&#39;m totally new to Perl, but I&#39;d like to try it out. I read about two rival distributions available for Windows platform (I guess there&#39;s _just_ Perl on other OSes :).

[Wikipedia][1] says that [Strawberry Perl][2] comes with additional development tools to compile CPAN modules if necessary. It sounds pretty good to me.

It also says that [ActivePerl][3] has a lot of prepackaged modules which are easier to install with PPM. It sounds great too!

There&#39;s a clear trade-off between those two. And I wonder: What should I pick to get started? If I pick one how hard, is it to migrate to the other?

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I gave both distributions a run for a couple of weeks. I actually liked both which is a good thing! _One can&#39;t go wrong with either of these._ I ended up going with ActivePerl simply because it comes with offline documentation&lt;sub&gt;(in HTML)&lt;/sub&gt; - a great life-savior for those who are on the road or just not always connected. It was super-easy for me to get started with Perl language while I was on vacation when I wasn&#39;t always online.

Strawberry Perl is at least as great if not greater. So I can totally recommend it, too. And I have to say one should just learn Perl - it&#39;s a very beautiful language. Give it a try!

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl
  [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivePerl



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