[thelist] Perl vs PerlScript (clueless newbie)

Wesley Aaron Mason wes at pmason.karoo.co.uk
Mon Oct 11 11:29:39 CDT 2004


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Which is actually just what Sean said.
PerlScript on the hand is a version of perl that runs in the Windows
Scripting host, via (as mentioned) ActivePerl.

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On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:22 am, Ken Schaefer wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:59:51 -0400, Sean G <ethanol at mathlab.sunysb.edu>
> wrote:
>> I'm looking for server side execution requiring nothing from the
>> client
>> beyond a web browser, which I think means Perl.  On the other hand
>> PerlScript is executed on the client, and on windows requires
>> something like
>> ActivePerl, right?   Am I even close?
>
> No.
>
> Perl (for web applications), PHP, ASP.NET, CF etc all run on the
> server. A browser only understands HTML (and CSS, Javascript etc), and
> all these programming environments do is output HTML (and CSS etc)
>
> Cheers
> Ken
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