Re: [MacPerl] MPPE Mailing list

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 14:35 -0400 7/13/1999, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>Dartmouth's MacScript list was never intended to be an AppleScript
>only list anyway, although a few of the denizens tried to treat it as
>such when I was subscribed.

I was referring to the Dartmouth list and, strictly speaking, it is 
supposed to be for discussions of OSA scripting, but since Frontier 
has its own lists, it is a defacto AppleScript list. In any case, 
JavaScript has nothing to do with it, but is discussed from time to 
time, as are other scripting languages that have nothing to do with 
AppleScript or even OSA.

In any event, I'm at a loss to understand why there is apparently a 
negative attitude among some people here when it comes to cgi. It's 
true that many cgi discussions wind up dealing with environmental 
problems- so do many non-cgi discussions.

For good, bad, better, or worse, Perl is following the same course 
that the internet followed and that Linux is following now- it's 
future as an all-geek toy has a visible horizon that is approaching 
rapidly. If the Big Dogs of the Perl community aren't inclined to 
acknowledge the role of cgi in scripting, then Perl's present 
pervasiveness in that arena will falter. There are some indications 
that this is already happening- PHP (about which I don't know too 
much) appears to have been built from the ground up for cgi in 
general and for database integration in particular. A development 
environment that doesn't recognize & exploit its potential strengths 
is in a state of atrophy- FoxPro is all but dead now because the 
mandarins at MS and the developer community never understood where it 
fit into the internet altho it could have easily been made into a 
heavy hitter server that would have put *anything* else on the planet 
to shame.

My main point is that even if the consensus is that messages that 
don't pertain to MacPerl per se should be on an alternative list, the 
present breakdown could use some consolidation.


Richard Gordon
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Gordon Consulting & Design
Database Design/Scripting Languages
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