Lol. Ok, well, I wasn't expecting an argument, but at least we agree that the two editions were different enough that any review of the first is less than applicable to the second.

As for why I feel the first edition of "Mouse" was inferior:

• It doesn't discuss CGI.pm, despite the already strongly asserted existance of that module. Instead, it discusses only CGI::Lite and cgilib.pl.
• It is very lightweight with respect to discussion of security, despite security already being a significant issue in 1996.
• It shows step by step how to create a webmail gateway, but doesn't really discuss the fact that a wide open webmail gateway is a spam-house's dream.

I consider those pretty big oversights for a book on CGI, even in 1996.

Dave

"If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein

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