[NTLUG:Discuss] portable perl question...

[Dan Griswold]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> writes:

    > "Rev. wRy" wrote:
    >>
    >> Fred James wrote:
    >>
    >> > The class is suppose to introduce us to CGI in Perl, and
    >> > right away the guy says nobody writes CGI in Perl any more -
    >> > is that true, or is he possibly misinformed?
    >>
    >> Misinformed.  I spent about 4 hours last night writing a CGI in
    >> Perl. :)
    >>
    >> I'd be more curious as to what people are writing CGI scripts
    >> in if not Perl.

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    >  - there must be *WAY* more CGI scripts done in PERL than
    > in anything else.  I think your instructor has it wrong.

The instructor is probably an NT bigot: he should probably said
something like ``fewer people are writing CGI scripts now, as more are
writing ASP pages using VBScript or Javascript.'' That would be closer
to the truth.

At the shop I used to work in, they recently went IIS, and refused to
install Perl. So, I was forced to convert several Perl scripts to
ASP/VBScript.

NT bigots view ASP/VBScript as so nifty that they ignore the benefits
of Perl. (Such as not having to rewrite everything.)

Dan

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