Re: [MacPerl-Scribes] Re: Using MacPerl for CGI Programming

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

Terje:

Thanks for the comments!

>What is this "*nix" y'all keep talking about?

It is shorthand for Unix, Linux, BSD and other members of that 
work-alike family.  Linux is DEFINITELY not Unix; it comes from an 
independent code base.  The biological terminology is that it is an 
analogue, not a homologue of Unix.  BSD is a homologue of Unix and 
probably is in the same genus but is definitely not the same species. 
Thus, Unix cannot be used for reasons that have nothing to do with 
AT&T patents.

I define this at the very beginning of the article and I believe this 
is fairly common useage.

Is this really objectionable?  Rich?  Brian?

>There are more than one Common Gateway Interfaces? Maybe you meant to refer
>to multiple CGI _programs_ or _applications_ or maybe even _scripts_? :-)
>
>Think "CGI == API".

Oy!  You are right!  I wish the deadline were not so soon.  I *think* 
I could globally change this to "CGI scripts"  and I *think* it would 
read OK.  Any objections?  Votes pro or con?  Not to rush anyone, but 
could you respond right now?  I think this column is due yesterday :-)

At 7:49 PM +0100 3/19/00, Terje Bless wrote:
> >http://foobar.net/cgi-bin/perl.cgi/more arguments/
>
>RFC 2606 describes domain names that are reserved for uses such as this.
>The TLD ".example", and the second level domains "example.com",
>"example.net" and "example.org" have been reserved for use in examples. In
>particular, while foobar.net isn't currently registered to anyone,
>foobar.com _is_ registered!

Good point.  This has now been fixed.

Thanks again.

-David-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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