Today, we’re deeply ensnared in the World Wide Web. Forests of techspeak, along with metaphors like "information superhighway", "global village" and "Infobahn" litter our conversations. Offline, you’re off-life, standing still as the information age hurtles past. And so the moral of the day is "Get online: there’s gold in those nets. You never know what you might catch!" This...
Note: For this tutorial, you must have a server that allows Perl CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts. You will need to have a Perl module called CGI.pm installed for this form to work. If you have telnet access, you can type "which CGI.pm" and it should tell you where it is or if you have it. If you don’t have telnet access, you can use another CGI script to check for it. To...
Perl is short for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It’s a language that is available free over the Web, and it’s used for a variety of things, from writing CGI scripts to assisting administrators in maintaining their systems. Perl was created, and is still maintained, by Larry Wall. It’s slower than C, but faster than a normal interpreted language. Instead, it’s...
