Re: Does Old=Bad?

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Beihoffer wrote:

>Perl is used on almost every web server 
>platform, from IIS on Windows NT/2K 
>to Linux to Solaris; it is, by far, the 
>most popular web CGI scripting language. 
>The fact that it is not supported by IBM 
>on the AS/400 is  the #1 reason why I 
>cannot even take the suggestion of the 
>AS/400 as a web server seriously.

Clearly you've been to CPAN and got your copy of the AS/400 port.  I too
have had...fun trying to get it up and running properly, but I attribute
that failure to myself more than anything else.  Perl is very new to me.
Anyway, when you say that Perl "is not supported by IBM on the AS/400" I am
a bit confused.  Does Microsoft do the porting/testing/integration for
Windows?  Does Sun do it for Solaris?  If I remember rightly, the port is
done by Perl fans and isn't "supported" by any vendor.  Did I misunderstand?

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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