Hi james, Which language? If Perl, go with Active State. IT has a marvelously easy to use package manager ppm, on the command line, POD docs converted to HTML and many WIndows modules preinstalled. It is the defacto standard perl distro for Windows, I'd say. ActiveState is not so critical for Python, I've heard. And as far as Ruby goes, I'm personally using the one click Ruby installer. Hope this helps. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't know enough to make a choice between getting the language > distributions from ActiveState or the developer sites. What do I need to > consider? __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind