PerlScript and Operating Systems

[petro...@my-deja.com]

Is PerlScript as platform independent as Perl? This morning I talked
with a company that advertises they support PerlScript on their web
site running under UNIX. I was affraid that the ASP files may be
limited to a small number of servers.

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[Tobias Martinsson]

> Is PerlScript as platform independent as Perl? This morning I talked
> with a company that advertises they support PerlScript on their web
> site running under UNIX. I was affraid that the ASP files may be
> limited to a small number of servers.

PerlScript is a trademark of ActiveState Tools Corp. and it is developed
for Windows. Active Server Pages is also developed for Windows, but
ports for other operating systems have surfaced, and entering the basic
capabilitied ot Active Server Pages into a code-library is not a
daunting programming task.

With the above in mind, there may certainly be ports of ASP - such as
chilisoft.com. However, on Windows you have ADO, for example, and
specific database systems, and you will not have that accessible on
UNIX. You will not have the integration of the Windows platform for
which ASP was built with in mind.

I don't know, but maybe the host means that they support scripts written
in Perl, which is very common UNIX. PerlScript is a trademark of
ActiveState.

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Tobias