Re: [MacPerl] UNIX CGI pointers and info

[Giles Francis Hall <ghall@sierra.latin.pvt.k12.il.us>]

>And I doubt your school would be willing to share it with us?
>(I fail to see the connection - a CERN box acting as a porn block using
>CGI's?  How is this possible?  I just don't see how a CGI could act as a
>porn sniffer to block connections to known porn sites!)
No, No.  Sorry, CGI for the front end (Adding sites, etc.)  You can't expect
the people who are edit the Porn list to learn VI ;) ...

>But that bot - you should really graduate before you complete that...
<Confused look> How do you mean?

>Haven't, becuase (no offense Matthias), but MacPerl just isn't good enough
>to be a CGI.  Way to slow, and it can only handle _1_ script at a time.
>Unlike on UNIX, where there can be multiple perl's running at a time, on
>the mac only 1 can be running.  Thus, it takes a long time.  Also, Web*
>(the mac server), is slow sending data back and forth, etc...
I know WebStar, how could I not.  The PowerMac sits side-to-side with the
Proxy server.

You know, in spite of the fact that I consider myself pretty adept at Perl,
(No offense Matthias) Mac Perl has been a doozy for me.  Maybe because I
just can't stand coding anything on the Mac <I'm spoiled, or sumthin>.

>Take a look at:
>http://www.hths.mcvsd.k12.nj.us/
>You'll see how slow it is.  Then entire site is fed though a MacPerl script
>(which I wrote), and well, Perl is missing some stuff in there too.
>Wouldn't be a hard port, just not worth it (in my opinion). 

Reminds me a little of the Perl server.cgi me and a couple of friends
created.  We tried putting up a business selling trading cards (Magic and
the sort).  Well, we piped everything through the server.cgi which had all
the core database routines and the file table for the html documents.  But,
it was -so slow- (Even though this ran on some souped up Sun over at
best.com).  We tried a C implementaion of it, but that too was pretty slow.
The point being is when the fork() gets going, nothing else does.  I argue
that CGI (In spite of the platform or the language) is slow.

> Besides, I learned how to do all that work by hand.

Oh jeez, is this a "back in my day we used to code the compiler before we
coded the program" thing? |]

Hey, is there a Windows'95 Perl?  tee hee...

-Hib Grancis Fall
Giles Francis Hall <ghall@sierra.latin.pvt.k12.il.us>
Latin School of Chicago
Senior High School Class of 1996