[rt-users] Re: Perl Question

[MikeHamilton at clovisusd.k12.ca.us]

I thought of a better way to word my question, and hopefully this will help
someone understand the conceptual hurdle that I have in learning about
this:
What advantage is there to embedding perl in html (I.e. Mason) vs just
generating the web page using raw perl (probably using cgi.pm to generate
the html).
I think my hurdle has to do with the difference between cgi and modperl,
which is why I would like to understand the advantage better. Is that a
better version of the question? I want to know because it would really help
me to figure out how RT works a bit better. I went to the RT training in sf
last year, but didn't know any Perl at the time and now using RT is making
me want to understand the components that make up RT so that I could write
some customizations for it. Fact is, I doubt that a book would be able to
answer this as well as someone who actually understands RT rather than some
generic Perl guru that would not understand the context of the question. I
hope that my question makes more sense, because the question itself is
bugging me. Is it a matter of programming approach or a matter of the logic
of the pieces that make up the foundation of tools that RT runs on.
I'm not trying to ask a question that should be in a more generic Perl
forum, so please forgive the cloudy nature of my first question. I would
like help understanding the perspective that RT operates from so that I can
make the time that I spend learning Perl more useful.

..