PERL still has plenty of enthusiasts, and I think that anyone who can
program in a few languages and understands the concepts of programming
should be able to pick it up easily.  Its a nice language, and its
platform-independent too.  Its compiled at run-time rather than interpreted,
so for long winded tasks performance is noticably better than ASP and other
scripting methods.

However, if you're running an IIS server then you may as well keep your life
simple and use ASP.  You could look into JSP as well, if your skills are
java rather than VB.

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Thompson [mailto:tqtclipper@m...]
Sent: 19 June 2001 12:28
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] Re: Email


Greg,

Thanks for the response. I started my research on using pearl as a solution.
It's funny because I worked on some db and web related stuff in the past and
ended up getting some programmers to write some stuff in pearl. They always
worked, however, there was always an argument somewhere that pearl was a
dying language, and that finding people that still used it was getting as
scarce as Cobol, although, you better not ever try to implement People Soft
(ERP) without a Cobol expert on hand.

Thanks again,
Terry Thompson

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Griffiths [mailto:griffiths@x...]
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 9:58 AM
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] Re: Email


The direction that I think you should be pointed in is away from Javascript
for this sort of thing. This stuff is best done on the server side using
Perl/ASP/PHP etc.

At 16:22 16/06/01 +0000, you wrote:
>My issue is a little different but I have been searching for a solution
>for an hour now so I'm willing to give anything a try. I would like a link
>on my web page that when clicked email the page including it's contents
>(gif,jpegs)to a friend. It will need a blank field for the to: and from:
>addresses and a blank field for comments.
>
>Can you help or point me in the right direction?
>
>Thanks,
>Terry