I share my kudos for the efforts of Steve Hay and others like him. and of course to Andre Warnier, a frequent and valuable contributor to this forum.
I love mod_perl. Speeding up scripts was what first attracted me. But developing web apps using the Apache API is what keeps me using. Many thanks, and kind regards, Russell -- Russell Lundberg Denver, Colorado +1 (808) 217-6975 Follow me on LinkedIn <https://th.linkedin.com/in/russelllundberg> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=telecomvoices> | Let's talk <https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14702481&appointmentType=8878125> | Subscribe to CafeTele Newsletter <https://cafetele.ck.page/newsletter> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 11:08 AM André Warnier (tomcat/perl) <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Many thanks. > Nowadays, we tend to deal increasingly with Linux servers rather than > Win32/64, but it is > nice anyway that someone cares for this, as we still have some customers > with legacy Win > servers that they want to keep and update from time to time. > (And it is also nice for our development/support workstations). > > We have quite a few real-world applications based on perl and mod_perl, > which in > themselves have been running reliably for years without any needed changes > due to perl itself. > But we do get in trouble from time to time because customers insist on > changing the > platform on which these applications are running. > > By the way, and in the somewhat OT gist of the discussions about perl's > evolution, I feel > that there is one argument about perl that is being consistently > overlooked and/or > undervalued : > The fact that applications written in perl many years ago (as much as 20 > years sometimes), > are still running unchanged today, despite numerous changes of versions, > platforms, OS'es > etc.. (*) > I do not think that there is *any* other current programming language (or > "framework") > which equals that record. > > This may sound a bit like a "dinosaur" argument, but just think of all > the time and > resources (and thus ultimately, money) which people programming in other > languages have > had to spend during the same period, just to keep the same things running, > and you can get > a measure of perl's "productivity" in comparison. > > I totally understand the desire of some to modernise perl and make it more > attractive to > new generations of programmers. But it would be a shame if in the process, > perl (5,7) lost > this rather unique quality and positioning. > > P.S. And of course, that longevity and stability of perl, is all to the > credit of people > like you, who have been supporting and maintaining it over the years, for > (in my view) > much too little public recognition and reward in the end. > > (*) a bit more on topic : the most "traumatic" events in those many years > as far as our > perl programming was concerned, have been the changes from Apache 1.x to > 2.0, and later > the changes from 2.2 to 2.4 in terms of AAA. (So, not in perl itself, but > in the way it > interacts with Apache). > I think that nothing else really "registered", even over many OSes such as > all the > versions of Windows-es, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Unix-es, Linux, to > name only the few > which I remember running our applications on. Applications of which we > only ever needed > one version, running everywhere. > > On 05.03.2021 13:12, Steve Hay wrote: > > For those who are interested, I have uploaded a 64-bit build of > > mod_perl-2.0.11 and libapreq2-2.15 components compatible with Apache > > Lounge 2.4.46 (Win64, VC16, built 18 February 2021) and Strawberry > > Perl 5.32.1.1 (64bit). > > > > You can download it from: https://people.apache.org/~stevehay/ > > > > The SHA1 digest is: 33e231eb91901007e25fd78eb5643901672c519b > > > > Regards, > > Steve > > > >
