RE: [cgiapp] Why perl lost steam...

2010-09-23 Thread Dermot Paikkos
> -Original Message- > My interest in peeking at Boulder was really OT, but let me explain a > little more about why it intrigues me. It seems to offer some simple > ways to search for data in sets of simple data files like those created > when using the CGI->save method, almost an SQL lik

Re: [cgiapp] Why perl lost steam...

2010-09-23 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Sep 22, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Ron Savage wrote: Your preference to hark back to perhaps obsolete software strongly suggests your need to rethink the bases of your decision-making ideas. Probably. Or just get out of the game entirely. But hear me out because this post contains some beginner's q

Where do i begin to learn Perl CGI? (before: Re: Why perl lost steam...)

2010-09-23 Thread Robert Roggenbuck
Hi, it depends how much You know about CGI in general. If you already know the basics about HTML-programming and the principles of CGI just have a look in the very detailed documentation of the Perl CGI module (http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.49/lib/CGI.pm). If HTML and CGI are new for Yo