Better Perl

Toby Corkindale tjc at wintrmute.net
Wed Apr 9 08:58:49 BST 2008


On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:46:21AM +0200, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> On 9 Apr 2008, at 09:10, Leon Brocard wrote:
>> On 08/04/2008, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same
>>> scalable systems that power Google applications."
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/appengine/
>>
>> I highly recommend people download the SDK and play with it and build
>> a little app in Python. It's a great tutorial and introduces the
>> concepts well. Only after doing that should you consider asking them
>> to build a Perl interface:
>>
>>  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=34
>
> How easy would it be to put a perl wrapper around the python API?

I would guess Google is running something like mod_python on their web servers;
Perl probably wouldn't even execute?

Toby


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