Re:(Zigster) I love perl but....

Install Active Perl on your NT box and you get PerlScript

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PerlScript is an ActiveX scripting engine that allows you to use Perl with any ActiveX scripting host. At this time, ActiveX scripting hosts include:

Internet Information Server 3.0/4.0
Peer Web Services 3.0/4.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0x
Windows Scripting Host

In truth tho, perl is a very flexible language as you will often see on this site TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it) your are placing the solution before the problem. ASP and the like are cool SOLUTIONS but so is perl it's SOLUTIONS are just different. I would suggest taking a look at perl script. It will allow you to map your current methodology. I would futher sugest taking a fresh look at your PROBLEMS and see how you may solve them in perl. The rest of this thread gives some excellent advice regarding using perl with web based applications.
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Zigster

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Re: Re:(Zigster) I love perl but.... by Odud (Pilgrim) on May 22, 2001 at 18:41 UTC
Zigster, Perhaps it is just my local configuration but I've found PerlScript to be very slow. I'd assumed that it was suffering from reloading the interpreter everytime the page was displayed - i.e. the problem that mod_perl fixes at the server end. Do you find the performance to be acceptable?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re:(Zigster) I love perl but.... by zigster (Hermit) on May 23, 2001 at 11:57 UTC
To be honest I have not used perlscript in anger. I use CGI where I can. I have played with it enuff to know it exists and may help out in this circumstance. -- Zigster	[reply]