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Slashdot: Book Review: Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 1999

“…an excellent review of the Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern
book Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C. This is an
excellent book for those considering working with Apache and
mod_perl, and helpful for C programmers.

“Although the title reads ‘… with Perl and C’, the emphasis is
very obviously on Perl. The C API reference chapters (chapters 10
and 11, pages 505 through 631) are very thorough, but almost all
the examples are in Perl only…”

“Fortunately for people like me, there is a lot of information
about mod_perl on the web; The Perl Journal has had several
articles on it, WebMonkey has had an article or two, and so
on…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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