USE PERL LOCALLY AS A DATABASE

[Rafael Esquivel Paredes]

 Hola lista!!...
 
 Nada mas les mando eso para que lo lean!!...se ve interesante!
 
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 Hi people!
 
         All you advanced PERL-programmers listen!
         I think I got good news for you:
 
         Have you ever thought of using PERL somewhere else than on a webserver?
         Well, I have, and the result is quite amazing.
 
         A driving school here in Stade(Germany) wanted to have a new 
database-system  to print different reports, list of students, invoices, etc.

Someone tried to write a program in MSAccess, but when he presented it
it was so hard in use that the driving school didn't want to have it.
 
So they asked me if I could figure out something useful. A DOS-base
pascal-program was certainly the wrong idea, so I suggested to rewrite the
program in PERL.

The big advantage is that you can use Netscape as a browser for your 
program. All elements such as buttons, scroll-down-menus, radio-buttons,
etc. are implemented - as e.g. in VB and you can easily use images, 
background-music -well, I think you know all the nice features of netscape 
(however, I didn't use multimedial effects in this program :o()

It's very easy to write a good-looking and easy-to-use program in PERL.
If you want to test my (german) version of the program, go here:

 http://www.city-map.de/cgi-files/main.cgi
 
                       Login: Henke    Passwd: 12345
 
Furthermore, this program can then not only be used in the driving school,
but the owner can install this program on an intranet - or even on the
internet. So he has access to the same files at home and at school. 
I don't know ifit is as easy to write a VB-, Delphi- or c++-program that 
supports networking as easily as PERL does.

Well, I yesterday installed the program on his local machine, without any
network-connection, a Win95 IBM PC 486DX 20MB, but he thought it was too
slow. I sold him a new mainboard and a new Intel P133 and now it works well 
*smile* If you have any questions on installing a PERL script on astand-alone 
PC, write back.

It took me four days to write this database - without using any routines
or libraries.

 BYE for 2day,
 
Henrik Steffen
 
PS.: Welcome to my new homepage on the WWW: http://www.city-map.de/HenriksHome/
      Uses some nice JavaScripts!
      But still under construction.
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