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 quickly find 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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