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Dear Dr. Website: Hi, I am a novice Web developer. I know Perl is the scripting language used in writing CGI, and that all CGI files must have .cgi extensions. But why do some books I've read have CGI programs ending in .pl? Second, for .pl programs, you need to compile, and this does not go through the server, right? But CGI (Perl) programs do, correct?
Answer: Perl is frequently used not because it's mandatory, but because it's a good all-around language for this kind of work, and, being freely available, it will run on almost any server. The file extension for Perl is .pl, so if a CGI program is written in Perl, either that or .cgi will work. However, do note that Perl is actually not generally compiled at all, but interpreted, which means changes that happen to Perl programs immediately take effect. There are Perl compilers available, however.
Please visit the CGI pages at
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Shells are found on most beaches. Sorry, couldn't stop ourselves.
Actually, shells are kind of like "flavors" or specific user interfaces,
for a Unix system, such as Korn, Bourne and C shell (yes, it's actually
called the C shell). These shells enable users to create "scripts" using
the shell's language, or simply issue commands to the Unix machine. Some
people use the word "shell" to refer to any command-line interface with a
scripting language, on any operating system, even Windows (via batch
files).
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