Re: ASP on OSX

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2004


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 57438
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texte = Clint Davis wrote: > Yes... > > http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/apacheasp/ > I would qualify that as "Not as such" since most people assume running .ASP as meaning using VBScript (or possibly JScript), but not Perl. It is not (in general) possible to run a generic ASP page on any platform other than Win32, and usually it will not be even possible to use any web server other than IIS (Chil!ASP notwithstanding) without serious modification. And as much as I love Perl, trying to program in ASP/Perlscript made my skin crawl. You have to use M$loth idiotic object abstraction which doesn't even make sense under VBScript. I much prefer Mason for embedding Perl in web pages as does Amazon: http://www.masonhq.com/?AmazonDotCom http://www.masonhq.com/?MasonPoweredSites My two cents... John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: ASP on OSX ( John Peacock 2004)
  2. Re: ASP on OSX ( Clint Davis 2004)
Clint Davis wrote: > Yes... > > http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/apacheasp/ > I would qualify that as "Not as such" since most people assume running .ASP as meaning using VBScript (or possibly JScript), but not Perl. It is not (in general) possible to run a generic ASP page on any platform other than Win32, and usually it will not be even possible to use any web server other than IIS (Chil!ASP notwithstanding) without serious modification. And as much as I love Perl, trying to program in ASP/Perlscript made my skin crawl. You have to use M$loth idiotic object abstraction which doesn't even make sense under VBScript. I much prefer Mason for embedding Perl in web pages as does Amazon: http://www.masonhq.com/?AmazonDotCom http://www.masonhq.com/?MasonPoweredSites My two cents... John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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