Re: [MacPerl] Re: Mailing List

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

Chris Nandor, <pudge@pobox.com> writes
>
>At 10.09 -0400 1999.07.16, Richard Gordon wrote:
>> Fortunately, Arved, along with being my favorite Canadian, you are
>> compulsively helpful even to those of us who understand that cgi is
>> the highest and best use of perl.
>
> Sigh, I hope this is meant to be a joke.

I certainly don't think Richard *meant* to imply that Mac::Glue is 
pointless!  Who needs Perl for CGI?  Not me, and certainly not for 
forms-processing! Scripting?  NOT!  I started out with the idea that I'd 
use MacPerl to rapidly prototype mini-applications.  As it turns out, 
MacPerl is *so* useful, I finally dumped the idea of ever implementing 
those mini-apps anywhere else!  I haven't had to look at as much as a 
line or two of C/C++ in months (and only then because I needed to 
understand ColorGamma.pm).

Personally, I think the highest and best use of Perl is whatever my (or 
anyones!) next project is.  The highest and best use of MacPerl is Kevin 
Reid's next demo, or the next release of Mac::Glue, or even someone's CGI 
(gasp!).  Perl is an all-purpose tool,  MacPerl doubly so.  I actually 
*USE* mac-cpan, and boggle at how I ever made use of MacPerl without it.  
Kevin's demos weren't just my introduction to Mac Toolbox calls in 
MacPerl -- I'd never tackled them before in ANY language!

Watching Arved build an XS was inspiring!  I certainly wouldn't want this 
list to degenerate into a discussion of CGI, nor do I like seeing the 
CGI-bashing.

Of course Richard is kidding! (you *were* kidding, weren't you Richard?)

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