Official Perl 6 and Parrot wikis

[Conrad Schneiker]

For those who didn't know (or didn't recognize the links), these are the
URLs for the official Perl 6 and Parrot wikis:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi

http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi

Contributions of content are of course always welcome.

Please consider linking to these wikis where appropriate, to help raise
their visibility and utility.

(Also consider dropping a note to perl6-users about major wiki updates of
general interest to Perl 6 test drivers and fans.)

FYI, there's also an official Perl 5 wiki.

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi

Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker

www.AthenaLab.com

[Mark J. Reed]

.cgi? Is that really a CGI-based implementation? Because that seems
a little, I don't know, backward-looking. Maybe it's just me, but it
seems like it will just feed the all-too-common perception that Perl
is for CGI scripts, and "real" web apps need to be written in
something else (be it Java, PHP, Ruby/Rails, whatever).

Besides, I hope that the language and wiki will be successful enough
that a cgi-based implementation will completely fail to scale to meet
demand. :)

--
Mark J. Reed <mark...@mail.com>

[Gabor Szabo]

On Dec 29, 2007 4:56 PM, Mark J. Reed <mark...@mail.com> wrote:
> .cgi? Is that really a CGI-based implementation? Because that seems
> a little, I don't know, backward-looking. Maybe it's just me, but it
> seems like it will just feed the all-too-common perception that Perl
> is for CGI scripts, and "real" web apps need to be written in
> something else (be it Java, PHP, Ruby/Rails, whatever).
>
> Besides, I hope that the language and wiki will be successful enough
> that a cgi-based implementation will completely fail to scale to meet
> demand. :)

Maybe the site maintainers could add an Apache rewrite rule
so the URLs used by the public will be

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.p6
and
http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.parrot

That would change the perception and we would not need to explain
about mod_perl running the .cgi scripts at the rate 100-200 faster
than good old CGI.

When asked if they really run on Perl 6 and Parrot we could just smile...

Gabor

[Chromatic]

On Saturday 29 December 2007 06:56:45 Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Maybe it's just me, but it
> seems like it will just feed the all-too-common perception that Perl
> is for CGI scripts, and "real" web apps need to be written in
> something else (be it Java, PHP, Ruby/Rails, whatever).

Proposed new rule: for every ten contributions to the wiki, you get one
bikeshed mail.

-- c

[Mark J. Reed]

Ok, consider me duly chastised. Sorry for the sidetracking.

[Chromatic]

On Saturday 29 December 2007 13:35:00 Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Ok, consider me duly chastised. Sorry for the sidetracking.

It's not a *bad* idea, but it's less important in my mind than getting useful
information on the wiki. Anyone who wants to pursue it can do so, but I'd
like to forestall a long digression on the list about it. That's all.

-- c