| IceShaman | but that's topical, SSI is alive to the extent people use it, but everything else is used more |
| Teratogen | as longs as ISS supports SSI ooooh ISS, SSI |
| IceShaman | people still use FORTRAN, doesn't mean you should |
| Teratogen | neat. I have seen Fortran CGI, and Cobol CGI examples |
| jagerman | The International Space Station uses SSI? |
| Teratogen | back in the 1990s |
| Patterner | FORTRAN is for computing, not web servers. |
| Teratogen | IIS I mean dammit does IIS do SSI? |
| mrabbit | i suppose i could write an interface for my blog in php. the engine is coded in perl |
| mauke | ``iis == `is == s |
| IceShaman | probably |
| Teratogen | it just goes to prove you can do CGI in just about any language |
| IceShaman | but I bet my arse they use a totally different syntax just to annoy you |
| jagerman | You could, but then you'd go straight to hell. |
| tkr | actual cobol would be good to know. as the old generations are dying we are soon missing competent cobol coders and they are going to earn shitloads of $$$. |
| IceShaman | tkr, why would they? |
| tkr | there are still lots and lots of old cobol applications that no-one soon know how to develop |
| IceShaman | "Hey I know a language that nobody uses or develops in", sure maybe maintenance, but it's probably at the stage where "Recode" crosses minds more than "Expensive outsourced maintainer" |
| tkr | HUGE applications ;) |
| Teratogen | http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/archive/colorit-fortran-get-cgi-example.txt |
| IceShaman | HUGE team of developers tasked with recoding the app ;) |
| Teratogen | fortran cgi |
| jagerman | Which would probably not be huge if rewritten in something modern :) |
| Teratogen | we need new beekeepers too. old beekeepers are retiring and no youngsters to replace them |
| IceShaman | really, languages don't last forever unless you're in a CS environment, and even then it's more for kicks |
| tkr | I never knew fortran looks that stupid or is it just bad code? |
| IceShaman | mainframe admin might be a good career choice for obscure knowledge pertaining huge cheques |
| Zaba | re |
| action | CPAN upload: DBIx-Class-Validation-0.01002 by CLACO |
| CPAN | upload: DBIx-Class-Validation-0.01002 by CLACO |
| tkr | is DBIx any good btw? Ive only used Class::DBI |
| VeXocide | what does DBIx have that DBI doesn't ? |
| tkr | I mean like DBIx::Recordset etc vs Class::DBI |
| jagerman | DBIx is just a namespace, sort of like Net |
| tkr | VeXocide, ie. some old db interface I wrote http://rehn.fi/concept/link.pm.txt it was for automatic L2 net crawler via SNMP |