Cygwin, perl, or visual basic?

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Joel Hammer:
> I have a little project here at work. We have finally, after months delay,
> gotten our digital cameras installed. The images look great. 
> 
> One of the issues is going to manipulating the images.
> 
> At least one of the computers involved is windows 2000. I need to arrange a
> way to move images around this thing automatically, name them, put comments
> into them, resize them, and so on. I am very grateful imagemagick has a
> windows port. I hope it works on 2000.
> 
> However, for the various scripting tasks, I am unsure how  to
> proceed. I have never used cygwin. Does that provide a powerful enuf
> linux environment to do this sort of thing?   Would just using perl be
> enuf for simple scripts? Does perl have sufficient scripting capability
> in windows for this sort of thing?

Strictly speaking, cygwin doesn't provide a Linux environment, it 
provides a fairly complete POSIX environment that just happens to
emulate Linux environments. In this case, cygwin might be unnecessary
complication. Perl has a surfeit of capabilities for everything you 
listed that needs to be done. Aside from strictly *nixish features,
Perl is effectively identical from the programmer's point of view
between the platforms - what differs is how everything is implemented,
which you don't care about.

Kurt
-- 
So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway?  And why can't he ever
remember his Bible?