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[Bill Crosbie]

> You might want to check out JavaScript though before you go to deeply into
>yucky old PERL.  It allows for manipulation of data as well as other kinds
>of cool stuff on the client side (using Netscape 2.0 and above) versus
>being server driven.  We are teaching ourselves JavaScript using Danny
>Goodman's book.   There is a group of 13 or 14 students, staff and
>professors.  We see the demise of PERL imminent except for special uses.
>

Oh - I'll tell all of the perl programmer's out there to start updating
their skill set... ;-)

Seriously though, I don't see Javascript as supplanting Perl in any way.
You said yourself that Javascript will do _client_side_ work on _Netscape_.
You've limited your audience right there.  Perl (or any other language on a
server) will handle all clients from Lynx to Netscape to (gak) MS Internet
Explorer.

Netscape does not intend for Javascript to supplant Perl.  It is supposed to
allow the client to handle the mundane tasks (data verification) so that the
server can be freed up for more interesting and difficult scripting - such
as serving custom pages.  There will be many uses for perl on the server
side of the equation.

If anything will supplant Perl it will be automated clinet-server interfaces
(perhaps SQL based) to backend relational databases.


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