Re: tlug: TLUG server as learning tool

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Uc^ida Masatomo wrote:

> Good Morning, everybody.
> 
> Karl-Max wrote:
> > > Another project is moving the Perl CGI scripts from TWICS to 
> > > the new server.  The Perl experts could help the Perl novices
> > > edit the files with the new settings and place the files
> > > in the proper places.  
> > This one is not too difficult and well suited for teaching.
>  A couple of ISPs allow to use Perl for CGI. But still no ISP allows
> to use Python. How about to try to translate Perl scripts into
> Python scripts. Even though I usually use Python, I never used Python
> on a server connected to Internet. So I'd like to use Python on our
> new server.
>  Python is not included in Slackware package. But it's becoming
> popular in Linux world.
> 

TurboLinux includes Python.  Personally, I'd much rather use perl.  Python
is designed for GUI stuff and isn't as efficient as perl, IMHO, for cgi
stuff.  Although, apache will run *any* executable program as a cgi-script
under Linux.  It just has to send the proper content-type strings and
stuff as output so that the browser sends the output as html instead of
text.

Anyway, if we use TL 1.2 on the TLUG server (as we should! :) ), then I
can use perl, you can use python, someone else can use C, C++, whatever,
and we'll all be happy, I hope. :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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