use CGI. There is absolutely no good reason to roll your own HTML. There are modules out there that will do it better, faster, and cleaner than you could ever do. (If you got it as good as them, you just reimplemented what they have already done.)

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.