Also sprach (e-mail address removed):
"Nobody can tell without knowing (a lot) more of what it is you intend
to
do. Perl is probably easier."
Your attempt to quote some material sure is appreciated in this group.
However, you can have google do the quoting for you. Please see here:
<
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14213&topic=250>
Then all you have to do is trim the quoted stuff (if necessary) and
insert your comments into the appropriate places which is: Right below
the respective paragraph you're responding to.
Sorry, I should've been more specific. What I'm wanting to do is the
following things: allowing people to sign in to the site, with a
confirmation e-mail when they sign up; allowing people to submit
information which will be inputted into dynamically generated HTML
pages which will be stored in a logical filing system; and have a
message board.
Perl seems like a natural fit for that kind of thing. But so do the
other server-side scripting languages such as Ruby or PHP. Check what
your server-hoster provides. If it only has one language, then you'll
evidently have to use it.
As for C and C++ you mentioned in a parallel thread: I would strongly
advice against those. These programs require compilation and in general
such applications need to be compiled on the machine on which they are
supposed to run. If you are moving your site to another server, all your
programs might require re-compilation. When not having shell-access,
this compilation step can become quite cumbersome or even impossible.
Tassilo
