I understand and I support the removal as a sane way to get Perl out of defaulting to the 90s but it’s not quite fair to say that there are easier alternatives for everything. Yes extensible, scalable, modern, forward-thinking, editable, etc but CGI.pm’s HTML generation and parameter handling is faster and eaiser than templates and I’ll continue to use it in one-offs, helpers, starting or piecing together templates, etc. Knocking this out with a template or a hand rolled .psgi or even mojolicious is more effort. The effort of course may be justified but sometimes it’s all one wants or needs–

perl -MCGI=:all -E 'say header(), start_html(), h1("OHAI"), start_form(), p(textfield("search")), submit("Go"), end_form(), end_html()'

Years of really excellent work went into the kit as messy as is it and it can still be a nice tool when not used for things other than the backbone for a “real” application.

In reply to Re^6: Perl CGI -disabled by Your Mother
in thread Perl CGI -disabled by misterperl

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