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January 15, 2004
Perl as a "dinosaur"?
Someone asked a question about updating SVG dynamically from a server on the SVG Developers list this morning. One of the (many) responses pointed to an article on SVG server-side.
As usual, I went to check it out to see if it might hold some tidbits I could use. Or maybe, it could be a resource I might recommend. While scanning the article, I found this little quote
Perl is the dinosaur among web scripting languages, its market share (when it comes to server side web scripting) getting smaller...
They go on to point out that in Perl you have to manually set the header.
I find it amusing that people that want to show the Perl programming language in a bad light ignore modules like CGI.pm that help to give Perl most of the support you need for web scripting. CGI.pm has been out there for a long, long time. It's been part of the standard distribution since version 5.004.
To give the authors credit, they do mention the SVG.pm Perl module for generating SVG using Perl objects.
Posted by GWade at January 15, 2004 09:38 AM. Email comments