See also our
Stunnix Advanced Web Server
- an advanced cross-platform
web server that uses codebase
of
Apache - the world's most
famous, widespread and flexible web server,
for use on read-only media and for browser-based applications!
Why use Perl for your browser-based applications
Perl is a mature scripting language
with
a lot of available modules, that drives
a lot of advanced web sites like
Amazon.
There are a lot of advanced frameworks and packages that make developing
complex web sites a trivial task. Perl is very portable,
a lot of
pre-built distibutions
of Perl exist, and most important, it's present in standard install of a lot
of operating environments environments - like MacOSX, and of most Unix
variants - Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, Irix, AIX, *BSD and of most
Linux distributions, see more details
here.
The minimal Perl runtime is very small (about 2Mb), allowing to ship
Perl interpreter and core modules with the application. Perl is available
on PDAs too. It's recommended to
evaluate
Perl and browser-based applications framework to see Perl in action.
