I would recommend not using Perl. Perl can let you do lots of complex text manipulation really easily, but it is a nightmare to debug, let alone maintain. It does too much magic with a lack of data types and automagic variables. I would recommend Python if you want to do CGI scripting. But as someone else said, you might want PHP instead of CGI scripting.
-D On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 04:27:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hi. sorry for the off-topic post. i'm embarking on a journey to be a web | developer and would like to know if i should use mod.perl or mod.php for cgi? | i've searched and read alot of faqs and so far they're all just howtos. the | only conclusion i can come up with is with php u can use it directly with | html | (plus also call it from html code) whereas with perl the only way u can use | it | is to call it from your html code. | | am i right with that assumption? | |
