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[Nick Wedd]

But he does not have a question about the Perl programming language,
which is the topic of this newsgroup.

Defending off-topic posting is a futile postion to take...




And neither is it about Perl.

It is about web server configuration.

If the OP chose to use Python instead, the answer to his
question would be *exactly the same*.

The answer is independant of programming language, hence cannot
be on topic in a newsgroup about a particular programming language.

I didn't know that when I posted. I thought that the Perl interpreter
might, on some servers, treat a cgi_bin (or cgi-bin) directory in some
special way.

And I know almost nothing about configuring web servers. If I had asked
on a newsgroup about web server configuration, I think I would have been
less likely to get a helpful answer than I was here.

Nick

 

[Tad McClellan]

I didn't know that when I posted.

Which is perfectly understandable. Folks should calmly point it out,
along with an alternative place to ask, should they know of one.

What we're going on about now is not you asking the question, it is
about Gunnar's defense of allowing off-topic threads to continue.

And I know almost nothing about configuring web servers.

But you will need to learn a bit if you are to find a solution
to your current problem...


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[Uri Guttman]

WW> Perl is written in Perl. It uses C as
WW> a abckend.

you seem to be full of knowledge about perl that is very wrong. perl is
100% written in c and there is no perl code inside the perl binary
(actually there is a little perl text for wrapping -n and -p loop
bodies).

please stop making statements like this. you have made a bunch already
as you keep trying to map perl to your fortran mind.

uri

 

[Uri Guttman]

WW> Tad's a small man in Iowa, the only resident in my clpm killfile.

wrong state. and i am sure you are residing in many killfiles
already. if i used them, you would be there. you want to learn perl but
you keep acting like you know more about perl than you do. obviously
then you don't need our help.

uri