Thanks to all for the valuable information. Now I feel I know better where I am headed :)
Cheers, Mazen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:25 PM Subject: Re: Confused between mod_perl and Perl! > Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > > I am totally new to the LAMP world and I am trying to find my way. I am a > > web solutions architect using Microsoft .NET, hence, I know how web > > servers work, etc. etc. > > > > I am just confused between mod_perl and Perl. My target is to be able to > > write enterprise web-based solutions using LAMP or Perl. TO be quite > > honest, I prefer writing in Perl (I am still a Perl newbie). > > LAMP just means using Perl along with Linux and Apache and an open > source database. mod_perl is just a module for apache that embeds the > perl interpreter inside the web server process. It's the equivalent of > an ISAPI module. ASP is similar to mod_perl, except that ASP is a > generic module supporting many languages while mod_perl is specifically > for Perl. > > - Perrin > > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
