Well, me personally, your title tickled me. But reading the post, I don't see any strong arguments against using CGI...

Regarding namespace issues, use the object syntax instead of the procedural syntax. And I guess the HTML element creation aspects can be seen by some to be overkill, but memory is cheap. So I don't see that as a big problem either.

And what does libwww-perl have to do with this discussion? The modules serve entirely different purposes. And regarding referring to CGI.pm as "old", well, you can also consider that to mean well-debugged, mature and time-tested. Furthermore, your quote states unequivocally that he is still working on the module on a regular basis, so it is far from being out of date.

Did you have some valid gripe with CGI? If so, do state it. And check out Apache::Emulator which just came out which has a neat way of making it so that CGI programs can move to mod_perl with no porting... Apache::Registry inverted.

In reply to Re: CGI made me bloated by princepawn
in thread CGI made me bloated by mattg

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