[Info-vax] Most popular application programming languages on VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/10/2019 2:01 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-01-10, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:19:57AM -0000, Simon Clubley via Info-vax wrote:
>>> Can Perl or PHP be directly integrated into an application in the
>>> same way as Python can ?
>>>
>>> https://docs.python.org/2/extending/embedding.html
>>
>> I haven't tried it with Perl, but from the documentation it looks like
>> it can be:
>>
>>      https://PerlDoc.Perl.org/perlembed.html
>>
> 
> Thank you for the link. That's what I was looking for and didn't know
> if Perl (or PHP) had. I tried doing a search for all three (Python,
> Perl and PHP) before posting and only turned up the link for Python
> (which I already knew about).
> 
> Given that Perl has this ability to directly integrate into applications
> as a scripting engine that indeed ends my opinion of it being "limited".

And it is used.

PostgreSQL allows stored procedures in Perl.

ActiveState has a Perl (ActivePerl) that can be used
within ASP (classic) pages.

Arne