I really loathe writing "Internet Applications". The request/reply HTTP protocol just plain sucks as a user interface, IMO. Whenever I do (luckely, I do that very seldomly), I find myself spending too much time checking input and creating feedback if something was wrong.

I prefer the command line, which also means it can be easily called from cron. I do write programs that generate HTML - that I don't mind, but I find it far easier to deal with user input when writing CLI programs than web based applications. But in some cases a GUI is preferred, in which case I use Perl/Tk.

Abigail