Re: [MacPerl] Like Perl as it is, or lump it

[time@ice.com (Tim Endres)]

In Regards to your letter <v01510101ad0b84078fbb@[206.43.170.33]>:
> >>As the world has not yet fully realized, the Internet's WWW is now
> >>in _great_ measure _driven_ by Perl!
> >
> >Hardly,.... driven by Netscape,  maybe... but not by Perl.
> 
> Well, more so than is obvious.  Netscape certainly makes more noise, but
> most cgis are written in Perl (in case you're not sure, cgis are programs
> that generate html on the fly).

I _really_ hate myself for perpetuating this thread, but I must
explain what is not obvious. The CGI's that perl drives are very
large in number indeed. In fact, I have seen several books now
that explain writing CGI's _in_perl_ as if there were no other
way to write them.

HOWEVER, there is _much_ more going on behind the scenes. If
you look into must of the "non-static" services, such as Cottage
Net, the VRCorp Job Database, and many others, the databases that
are driving the site are built, maintained, filtered, searched,
etc. by perl scripts. Many people use perl to verify links in their
hierarchies. Perl is used to automatically generate entire html
trees from meta-languages. The list goes on.

In other words, NetScape could disappear tomorrow, and few people
would notice. But if perl disappeared, there would be a collective
moan.


tim.

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