Re: iSeries, web development and perl

["Kevin Schroeder" <kevin@xxxxxxxx>]

Mod_perl has been around for a long time, and I would think would be compile-able.  Mod_perl embeds the Perl interpreter in the Apache engine and so you get a pretty decent performance improvement.  But you'd have to compile it yourself, unless someone has a shared lib binary somewhere.  However, from my time earlier on doing Perl on the web I think there are a few differences in how your write your programs.  I may be wrong, or it may have changed, but I remember having to do some things differently from CGI Perl and mod_perl.

... or... you could use PHP.  It's fun AND satisfying.  :-)  

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:26 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] iSeries, web development and perl

Mike Cunningham skrev:
> Has anyone on this list use perl on an iSeries for web development?  I know perl can run on i, we have a 3rd party app that uses it for some processes and I know perl can be used for web development on unix/linux platforms but I can't say I have ever heard of anyone using perl for web development on i.
>   
Perl is a fantastic tool for processing flat text files!  Truly 
fantastic!  Perl is the iPhone of regular expressions :D  (or something)

The major problem with USING Perl for web development is that you want 
the programs running _inside_ the webserver for speed.  This means C and 
glue code and has been done for Apache, but apparently not ported to OS/400?

Anyone using it?

(I would like to, but we stick to standard things to avoid customer 
deployment heck)