Hello Chris,
I read (http://wiki.perlchina.org/main/revision/Ask%20Tim:%20When%20will%20Perl%206%20ever%20get%20done) that Parrot will be coming on production this October/ November. That's version 1.0. I also read claims that Perl6 modules are appearing on CPAN. Sounds like good news. I just hope that I can hang on to my current Perl job until Perl 6 goes big time. Until then, people continue to see Perl as some cheap back-end glue for administrators, while I continue to figure out how to make mod_perl compete with the likes of Java servlets and PHP.
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Unfortunately Bill, I don't know of any movement on Perl in this area.
Perhaps with Perl 6 this will be possible. And even then P6 is years
away...
Actually you'd be suprised how close Perl 6 seems to be. PUGs is moving along faster than anybody expected. Even still though without a perl6 interpreter built into the browser there will be no Applets in Perl. Sun did alot of marketting to make sure that a JVM got into the popular browsers out there, nobody has stepped up to make sure Perl (in any version) is that ubiquitous.
The only choices for rich through the browser clients are Java, Javascript, or something proprietary (XUL if you like Mozilla, or possibly ActiveX in the windows world).
I recently had to make this same decision which is why I'm now writing Java applets. If you can target Mozilla browser, I highly reccomend XUL, otherwise ajax (Javascript all grow'd up) or Java are your best choices.
-Chris
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