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Perl Conference Attracts More Than 1,000 (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:57:49 -0700
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Subject: Perl Conference Attracts More Than 1,000
PERL CONFERENCE ATTRACTS MORE THAN 1,000
Significant Developments for Perl NT and Apache Expected To Expand Perl's
Popularity
O'Reilly & Associates, organizers of the world's first Perl conference, has
reported that 1,047 Perl devotees joined together August 19-21 to discuss
the widely-used freeware programming language.
At the conference, the world's top Perl developers committed to renewing
their focus on multiple platform support within Perl version 5.005, to be
released this November. The current focus is on a more complete integration
of the functionality of Win32 Perl with core Perl. Beyond 5.005, the group
also plans to integrate support for Macintosh Perl within the core.
Following the conference, O'Reilly announced significant developments in
Perl for Apache and Windows NT, along with O'Reilly's previously-announced
Perl Resource Kit - Unix Edition and the revised www.perl.com site.
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
(For full text of announcements, see
http://software.ora.com/news/press/pr9-8-97.html/
For more information about Perl, see http://www.perl.com/)
The Apache/Perl integration project, developed by Douglas MacEachern,
brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the
most popular web server on the market, the Apache HTTP server. MacEachern
has glued Perl and Apache together with the 'mod_perl' server plugin, which
makes it possible to write Apache modules entirely in Perl. The plugin also
supports Win32 systems.
A new ODBC driver for Perl/Windows NT is being created by developer David
Roth, making it easy to do such tasks as quick prototyping proof-of-concept
applications. This enriches the Perl/NT driver set, which includes
multi-platform DBI and DBD::ODBC.
Larry Wall, creator of Perl, is developing a tool that will let developers
create Java bytecode with Perl, enabling specially-prepared Perl programs
to run on Java-enabled browsers. This allows programmers to use Perl for
the things that it does well and Java is weak at, such as string
processing, while exploiting Java's wide availability on the browser.
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