Because it requires us to get a Perl interpreter in our browsers but this is not a common thing (even if some experiments exists, but I believe it would include several security issues). The mentionning "required Javascript" is the browser-side one. As far as I know, Perl is more used as a server-side language.
Sébastien On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Maurice McCarthy <m...@mythic-beasts.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm brand new to Perl. I'm reading perldoc and working through Simon > Cozens online > book to get me started. Even though it is 14 years old and some syntax has > changed > in the meantime, figuring out how to make the operations work is getting > me into > perl. > > At present I've got Strawberry Perl 5.18.2 on Windows 7. I run UNIX-type > systems at > home but I'm at sea and so got use what I got here. > > One thing puzzles me at the moment. I run Firefox Portable with NoScript > installed. > When I go to http://perldoc.perl.org/search there is a message, "This > site requires > Javascript ... " Why can't you use Perl instead? > > Just Curious > Thanks > Moss > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
