This probably isn't the answer you're looking for either,
but have you thought about using PHP? We use PHP quite a bit
because:
- It was easy for me to learn, already knowing Perl.
- It performs reasonably well in CGI or Apache module mode.
- Relatively fast development cycle.
- Many hosting providers offer it without significantly increasing
costs.
Of course, it has its drawbacks.
- No CPAN
- Not quite as elegant as Perl
- Not as good at regular expressions
- Not Perl :)
PHP has "include" functions for importing the things you
want to use over and over. We use includes for the headers
and footers so that the page content is separated from the
page navigation and look-and-feel..
I would not recommend PHP for anything where you want
to have some very powerful functionality and have a tight
deadline. It can be quite tedious to do serious application
development...at least in comparison to Perl.
