Totally agree with you bjorn, I was merely poking fun at my newbie error there (a mistake I made once on a dev box) and was no slight of mod_perl.
I would use mod_perl by default on any web perl projects, the question for me became why on this blue marble I wouldn't use mod_perl? Doddle install, rocket performance, slam dunk. On a previous point, I should entertain the possibility that my perception of how much time it would take for me to learn perl properly may be wrong, since I've never done it! I have the greatest respect and admiration for the people who have made perl the success that it is and are building it's future. Perl enables others to get results in their lives. I can scarcely imagine the aggregate benefit to civilisation that is accumulating as a result. The world has enough nay-sayers with no plans for a better tomorrow, and I identify 100% with you people in opting to do something positive that makes the world a better place, creating and sharing something new and useful. I have quit my job after 21 years to cut out on my own. Once I have my financial future fortified i.e. my freedom won, there are lot's of things I want to do for the community, maybe because I was bullied at school I don't know, but in any event it's in step with my ethical aspirations. The perl community have my best wishes as a matter of principle, and I predict Perl is in my future, even if I don't get to use it myself. tom cowap dublin, ireland -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ask Bjoern Hansen Sent: 07 November 2004 23:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Critique of Where Perl 6 is Heading [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pressio Main Email) writes: [...] > punctuation marks, and evening/weekend coders like me can gimp our way to > eye-candy web pages with a 1MB 'script'. (exit; why's apache and mod_perl > gone?) mod_perl is in many many servers serving billions of requests per day. It's not a good fit for your average $5/month massively shared ISP hosting account so it's more often being used on bigger sites where it's amazingly successful. Maybe I'm operating in the wrong circles, but I often hear success stories and very rarely or never hear stories about how mod_perl didn't work well. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
