Re^2: Argument for Perl ( again and again )

"If I need to do AJAX on a webpage I need to use JavaScript. As far as I can tell there is no way around that if I want to be browser neutral."

You could always write client-side scripts in a subset of Perl.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^3: Argument for Perl ( again and again ) by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Oct 16, 2012 at 19:25 UTC
You could always write client-side scripts in a subset of Perl. Write in Perl and translate to JavaScript? Pretty much amounts to the same thing. As far as I remember you can't run Perl in a browser unless they snuck that into the more recent HTML standards... :-) Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]
Re^4: Argument for Perl ( again and again ) by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 16, 2012 at 20:33 UTC
Perlito (linked in my previous message) is a Perl interpreter written in Javascript. Thus allowing you to run a subset of Perl within the browser. And the HTML standards certainly do allow Perl to be implemented by browsers. `<script>` has a `type` attribute which is used to indicate the scripting language. Browsers are free to support whatever scripting languages they like. There is indeed a plugin written by ActiveState providing Perl support for Internet Explorer. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Argument for Perl ( again and again ) by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 17, 2012 at 11:29 UTC
You can run perl in some browsers. Old, nasty browsers. Activestate released PerlScript for IE many many years ago.	[reply]