What is ActiveScripting?
Active Scripting is a new technology put out by Microsoft Corporation to allow code embedded in HTML pages to run on WWW clients or servers. It is designed to be language neutral, so that you can write Active Scripts in Visual Basic, JavaScript, Python, or, theoretically, Perl. 1.11. Is there an ActiveScripting version of Perl available? Yes. On December 4, 1996, ActiveWare released a beta version of PerlScript, an ActiveScripting engine for the Perl language. ftp://ftp.activeware.com/beta/PlSEi302.exe or on CPAN at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/win32/Perl5/beta/PlSEi302.exe You’ll also need to download either the Perl for Win32 5.003 binary or source format package in the same directory (see question 1.13). There’s no documentation to speak of, but there are several examples. ActiveScripting works a lot like OLE Automation, so if you review that documentation, plus the ActiveScripting documentation, you should be able to get along. 1.12. What other scripting languages are available f
