Re: Expert Advice Needed for Web Interface

Jay,

Thanks very much for your suggestions!

I picked up Learning Perl, and it looks like a very good book.

I haven't heard of the GNATS replacements apps. Can you tell me more about that?

-JT

beansboy_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:

> If you'd really like it to be portable, I would strongly suggest perl5.
> Coming from your background, you shouldn't have any trouble at all picking it
> up. All of my programming buddies, after learning it, have become
> perl-mongers.
>
> I've had experience creating a cgi-bin in perl running on NT, then moving it
> over to a Solaris box. No problem. In fact, if you write it correctly using
> DBD:DBI, you can even change databases later on very easily (if you can't
> afford the oracle licence). That's about as good as it gets. (and IMHO it's
> a helluva better webby language than PL/SQL htp.p's).
>
> In addition to the O'Reilly book(s) (see Learning Perl, Programming Perl, and
> the perl cookbook, too), download some sample apps like some of the GNATS
> replacements (there's one that uses postgres which is very good). They'll
> really help you get started.
>
> -jay
Received on Mon Oct 19 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT