Hello,

in my career of a perlprogrammer for four years now I've very seldom written cgi-Scripts or the like (Just sometimes when I needed a userinterface or something to visualize data. count < 20). I mostly use perl for data-munging, interfaces between datasources or systems and such stuff.

I am a proud member of the german webforum www.perl.de, and there is about the same... I often have to remind the people that perl is more than just cgi. I've seen answers to questions like "How can I read parameters into variables" as the following: 

use CGI qw(:standard); 
my $var = param("name");

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and the helped people wondered why it didn't work. Yes, they were writing non-cgi-scripts... And I don't know how many people have installed a webserver because somebody told them they need a webserver to write perl-code :-(

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

In reply to Re: Re: Are we obsessed with CGI? by strat
in thread Are we obsessed with CGI? by rinceWind

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