RE: Does Old=Bad?

this thread seems familiar for some reason... *snicker*  

I can't imaging using Windows or unix for web serving because they can't do
RPg or Net.Data.  Why would I want to use some hokey libraries for access to
AS/400 data when I can do it natively?

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Does Old=Bad?
> 
> 
> 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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