ASP-style tags for Perl web development?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580966

Question

I feel like I'm traveling 10 years back in time by asking this, but...

Are there any modules, patches, or any "new" version of Perl (released in the last 10 years) to enable writing web-oriented Perl scripts using ASP-style tags?

e.g. from ASP/JSP 

 some html <% some code %> more HTML

e.g. from PHP

 some html <? some code ?> more HTML

Please don't worry about "why" I'm asking this... It's related to programming language research.

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Solution

Yep. Check out Mason.

You can install it from CPAN with cpan -i HTML::Mason.

There's also Template Toolkit, which makes it a bit easier to separate your template and logic code, but allows a lot of the same constructs.

OTHER TIPS

Markup::Perl gets you pretty close to PHP/ASP style programming in Perl.

  # don't write this...
  print "Content-type: text/html;\n\n";
  print "<html>\n<body>\n";
  print "<p>\nYour \"lucky number\" is\n";
  print "<i>", int rand 10, "</i>\n</p>\n";
  print "</body>\n</html>\n";

  # write this instead...
  use Markup::Perl;
  <html>
  <body>
  <p>
  Your "lucky number" is
  <i><perl> print int rand 10 </perl></i>
  </p>
  </body>
  </html>

Embperl does support ASP style tags.

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