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CowboyNeal
on from the rubbish-listers dept.
JamesD_UK writes "mod_perl 2.0.0 has been officially released into CPAN. Enhancements over mod_perl 1 include threads support and a perl interface to the Apache Portable Runtime. More details on the release can be found on CPAN."
Re:Perl still used?
by
Living+WTF
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· Score: 5, Informative
> Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
What do you think that ".pl" in most slashdot URLs stands for? PHP Light? Phyton Lowspeed? Perhaps Lisp?
-- I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
General note: what is it?
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
For people who are wondering what mod_perl is exactly: it's a way of integrating perl into Apache's webserver. I think the main advantage is that you don't have the overhead of firing up perl for each cgi-type request. The main gotchas, for the developers point of view, involve a little perl enviornment staying alive, when a perl script starts, runs, and stops, it cleans up after itself, but when it 'stays alive' inside apache, you have to make sure it's not accumulating too much memory cruft, that you're closing handles, etc etc.
This is what I know mostly by reputation, rather than direct experience, experts please feel free to correct me
Re:General note: what is it?
by
ydnar
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· Score: 5, Informative
The main advantage is not the faster CGI execution environment.
mod_perl lets you create Apache modules in Perl, that handle every stage of a request (or anything else), and are full peers of Apache modules written in C.
ModPerl::Registry[Prefork] is just a bonus. The more interesting m_p modules are authn/authz/dispatch modules that can replace cumbersome C equivalents.
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Re:Perl still used?
by
_defiant_
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· Score: 5, Informative
Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
Ohh, I don't know... how about Amazon and Salon? Kuro5hin and all the other Scoop based sites like DailyKos and MyDD. And now that I think about it, MovableType, TypePad, and LiveJournal are all writen in Perl.
Everyone bitchin' that "CGI is dead" should broaden their horizons a bit. CGI may be stupid and dead, but Perl is used in a lot of different ways. It's still one the best languages for getting good work done.
For example, Mason is a pretty good tool for doing Perl-based web components.
So bitch about CGI if you wish, but that's not what Perl is for.
-- Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Re:Perl still used?
by
abulafia
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· Score: 4, Informative
Amazon.com - E-commerce pioneer seeking to
offer the world's largest selection of products online.
for details.
AvantGo - Mobile applications for handheld
devices.
DynDNS.org - One of the world's largest
providers of free and premium Dynamic DNS services.
Findory - Personalized news and blogs aggregator. Findory learns what kind of content you like by the pages you read.
Live365.com - The world's largest Internet radio website.
Salon.com - Online magazine covering news,
politics, technology, art, sex and health; winner of numerous web
awards.
Weta Digital - Weta Digital are well known as the special effects people behind the Lord of the Rings films. At his OSCON 2004 keynote, Milton Ngan of Weta Digital thanked some technologies, including Mason, which is used as part of their intranet.
A
AcuTrans.net - Home page for AcuTrans, a company providing an online content management system integrated with transcription services (built with Mason) for business, legal, medical, and self-insured companies.
Adventist.org - The official web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Alhazred - Progressive music project being produced with open source/free software
Alzabo.org - Home page for Alzabo data modelling tool.
American Lung Association of Washington - Assuring lung health for the people of Washington state through research, education, community service and advocacy.
Apartments - Apartments for rent by RentersInc.com. Free apartment search engine and apartment guide.
arabellan - Web presence of Ryan "Exide Arabellan" Zander, a graphical artist.
astrojax.com - amazing fun and action game - community website with lots of features.
Autismeinfocentrum.nl - Information- and documentationcentre about autism and related subjects in the Netherlands.
Beotechnic - Company specializing in knowhow transfer
Bikeworld.com - Online retailer, sporting a new 100% Mason-powered site that was developed entirely in-house.
bizjournals.com - Publisher of 41 weekly business newspapers across the US.
BlackSpider - Managed services provider
focused exclusively on the provision of e-mail security solutions.
Burma-Shave.org - All of the original Burma-Shave jingles, plus the Burma-Shave Daily mailing list.
C
cibera.de - cibera is an online library site which offers a central access point to interdisciplinary material concerning the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking area as well as the Caribbean.
Cars - iCarsInc.com Cars for sale. Buy and sell new and used cars online. Your next auto purchase starts right here. Find new, used, classics, sports cars, luxury cars, trucks, SUVï½s and even motorcycles for sale.
-- I forget what 8 was for.
Some mod_perl info
by
programgeek
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· Score: 5, Informative
You people are saying alot of stuff without even bothering to google it.
The following is taken from http://perl.apache.org/
"mod_perl is more than CGI scripting on steroids. It is a whole new way to create dynamic content by utilizing the full power of the Apache web server to create stateful sessions, customized user authentication systems, smart proxies and much more. Yet, magically, your old CGI scripts will continue to work and work very fast indeed. With mod_perl you give up nothing and gain so much!"
"mod_perl gives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, giving you super-fast dynamic content.
As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating sytems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites like Slashdot and Wired Magazine use mod_perl."
Yes, Slashdot does run on mod_perl.
A friend of mine uses mod_perl and the performance increase he gets is insane.
Here is the list of the top level comments prior to yours that were modded down: 1) Never used it. What's the big deal? 2) FP 3) dead language. 4) offshoring myths 5) if the server is running it the slashdot effect will kill it. 6) Is there anyone left who hasn't switched to Ruby or Python? 7) Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
All were either totally OT, or obvious language-war trolls, save #1 which was wasn't a critical post.
AFAICT it looks like the moderation system is working quite well.
Slashdot Mirror
> Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
What do you think that ".pl" in most slashdot URLs stands for? PHP Light? Phyton Lowspeed? Perhaps Lisp?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
For people who are wondering what mod_perl is exactly: it's a way of integrating perl into Apache's webserver. I think the main advantage is that you don't have the overhead of firing up perl for each cgi-type request. The main gotchas, for the developers point of view, involve a little perl enviornment staying alive, when a perl script starts, runs, and stops, it cleans up after itself, but when it 'stays alive' inside apache, you have to make sure it's not accumulating too much memory cruft, that you're closing handles, etc etc.
This is what I know mostly by reputation, rather than direct experience, experts please feel free to correct me
--
#perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{-|}&|`{;; y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'
Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
Ohh, I don't know... how about Amazon and Salon? Kuro5hin and all the other Scoop based sites like DailyKos and MyDD. And now that I think about it, MovableType, TypePad, and LiveJournal are all writen in Perl.
For example, Mason is a pretty good tool for doing Perl-based web components.
So bitch about CGI if you wish, but that's not what Perl is for.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Amazon.com - E-commerce pioneer seeking to offer the world's largest selection of products online. for details.
AvantGo - Mobile applications for handheld devices.
DynDNS.org - One of the world's largest providers of free and premium Dynamic DNS services.
Findory - Personalized news and blogs aggregator. Findory learns what kind of content you like by the pages you read.
Live365.com - The world's largest Internet radio website.
Salon.com - Online magazine covering news, politics, technology, art, sex and health; winner of numerous web awards.
Weta Digital - Weta Digital are well known as the special effects people behind the Lord of the Rings films. At his OSCON 2004 keynote, Milton Ngan of Weta Digital thanked some technologies, including Mason, which is used as part of their intranet.
A
AcuTrans.net - Home page for AcuTrans, a company providing an online content management system integrated with transcription services (built with Mason) for business, legal, medical, and self-insured companies.
Adventist.org - The official web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Alhazred - Progressive music project being produced with open source/free software
Alzabo.org - Home page for Alzabo data modelling tool.
American Lung Association of Washington - Assuring lung health for the people of Washington state through research, education, community service and advocacy.
Apartments - Apartments for rent by RentersInc.com. Free apartment search engine and apartment guide.
arabellan - Web presence of Ryan "Exide Arabellan" Zander, a graphical artist.
astrojax.com - amazing fun and action game - community website with lots of features.
Autismeinfocentrum.nl - Information- and documentationcentre about autism and related subjects in the Netherlands.
AutoSupplyUK.com - Used Japanese import auto store.
B BDO - Austrian tax consultancy
Beotechnic - Company specializing in knowhow transfer
Bikeworld.com - Online retailer, sporting a new 100% Mason-powered site that was developed entirely in-house.
bizjournals.com - Publisher of 41 weekly business newspapers across the US.
BlackSpider - Managed services provider focused exclusively on the provision of e-mail security solutions.
Burma-Shave.org - All of the original Burma-Shave jingles, plus the Burma-Shave Daily mailing list.
C
cibera.de - cibera is an online library site which offers a central access point to interdisciplinary material concerning the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking area as well as the Caribbean.
Cars - iCarsInc.com Cars for sale. Buy and sell new and used cars online. Your next auto purchase starts right here. Find new, used, classics, sports cars, luxury cars, trucks, SUVï½s and even motorcycles for sale.
I forget what 8 was for.
The following is taken from http://perl.apache.org/
"mod_perl is more than CGI scripting on steroids. It is a whole new way to create dynamic content by utilizing the full power of the Apache web server to create stateful sessions, customized user authentication systems, smart proxies and much more. Yet, magically, your old CGI scripts will continue to work and work very fast indeed. With mod_perl you give up nothing and gain so much!"
"mod_perl gives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, giving you super-fast dynamic content.
As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating sytems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites like Slashdot and Wired Magazine use mod_perl."
Yes, Slashdot does run on mod_perl.
A friend of mine uses mod_perl and the performance increase he gets is insane.
Georgia
Here is the list of the top level comments prior to yours that were modded down:
1) Never used it. What's the big deal?
2) FP
3) dead language.
4) offshoring myths
5) if the server is running it the slashdot effect will kill it.
6) Is there anyone left who hasn't switched to Ruby or Python?
7) Who still uses Perl for web stuff?
All were either totally OT, or obvious language-war trolls, save #1 which was wasn't a critical post.
AFAICT it looks like the moderation system is working quite well.
Hyperbole is the worst thing ever.