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Foil 38 Some (New) Web Technologies in a Nutshell - III

From Web Technologies for Education Workshop on Education and Training Technology -- NIST -- 25 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
PERL is a relatively old technology which is being overtaken by Java tidal wave. Still PERL has much better Systems and Document handling capability than Java
  • traditional and probably best (today) choice for server CGI extensions and development of filters
  • -- especially those for text documents
  • Perl5 is object oriented but much less elegant (in my opinion) than Java
  • Perl5 has very useful multidimensional associative and regular arrays
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