Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Morrow): >This is *not* a p5p problem. These are *not* things that should be in >core perl. If you want to talk to ActiveState and see if you can >persuade them to produce a 'perl for incompetent IIS users' >distribution, which includes things useful to people like that, then >feel free to.
Stating that this is not a perl problem, when if perl is ran with bad code that it can take down a web server, would seem a bit ignorant. Like Joe said - 'if your roof is leaking you cannot keep blaming the rain'. Would you suggest that the Perl distribution be renamed to 'Perl - only for advanced users, beginners not welcome' Or maybe 'Perl - add this to your web server only if you know how to set your machine specifically to cope with runaway perl processes' Or even 'Perl - not for incompetent IIS users or users of early versions of IIS'? I'm sure that would greatly increases Perl's popularity on windows servers. Or you could have 'Perl - includes features so that badly coded scripts cannot take down your server'. From a Win32 hosting companies point of view when they are choosing which scripting languages to include on their server, ASP - handles run aways on by default, PHP - free handles run aways by default, Perl - has a habit of taking down your server without special setup, if you have an old version of IIS you cannot prevent this so will need to restart your web server from time to time. This is not the only reason, but it's CERTAINLY the main reason why Win32 hosting companies take up of PHP is much greater than that of Perl. Lyle 'Perl should be the most widespread scripting language on all systems on the Internet. It will be if you make it.'
