Hello.
I just got on to the mailing list. Yeah. \(^),(^)/
In a Nutshell, I tester by day and web scripter by night, thus naturally Perl
has come into my life. I am forced to work in Windows, dip my toe in
UNIX every so often, and try to make my Titanium useful.
I like the MacPerl support in BBEdit. Really coooool.
Things I'm doing these days:
SHORT TERM
- generic test tools
- package things into modules
- create command line parsers
- create databuilder that builds records from CSV files
LONG TERM
- create perl cgi that pull tables from Oracle using DBI.
Outputs Dynamic HTML with JavaScript and VisualBasic Script.
The VBS is used to autocreate Excel spreadsheets through OLE Automation.
- create perl program that ssh to 3 servers, greps for information, and
autogenerates XML files.
- create CGI that takes XML files (above) and outputs this as
DHTML (Java/VBScript) that will generate tables and Excel files.
SOMEDAY
- create emailer CGI
- create webcounter CGI
This brings me to some questions about Perl and Mac Scripting
WEB ACCESS
- is there any way to have a script in any form from HTML call AppleScript??
XML Libraries
- what libraries are working on the Macintosh OS Classic??
- is there an XSLT engine on the Mac in Perl?
DBI
- is this even feasible on the Mac OS Classic??
Perl/Tk
- Does this work on the Macintosh?
- Is there support for some sort of Aqua/Tk?
Other Modules
- Do NET::SMTP, Mail::Internet, LDAP, IMAP::Admin, Mail::IMAPClient, Net::LDAP,
Net::LDAP::LDIF
work on the Mac?!?
Misc...
- Is there a way to create some sort of Perlets, i.e. executable compiled programs
on the Mac?
Maybe some sort of Perl executable can be a 68K CODE resource, and read the
datafork, which
is essentially the Perl script, or on PowerPC where the datafork is the binary,
the PerlScript
can be a string resource. Just an idea...
