[thelist] Perl vs PerlScript (clueless newbie)

Ken Schaefer ken.schaefer at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 19:22:27 CDT 2004


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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