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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers should I start with cgi and perl? gawk? help! Post 302252969 by dan-e on Thursday 30th of October 2008 06:55:15 PM
Old 10-30-2008
Well I guess you need to find out the relative strengths & weaknesses of these technologies and match them to your needs accordingly... I'm not a web expert, but I know we have done this type of thing with perl+cgi+html. Personally I am using shell scripts rather than Perl; but this is purely so that I can improve my native scripting skills. From what I understand Perl is the shtuff for text-processing and provides good abstraction from some tricky scripting stuff, so you might wanna go Perl rather than shell scripts.

Also, Perl is definitely worth learning if you will be doing this kind of thing at all in the future. And remember, most people don't know where to start - just take baby steps until it either comes together or falls apart (in which case you may need to try some different tech; or post your problem here).
 

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