Fellow monks,

I've just completed the web portion of a small shopping cart for work, and now I'm starting on the backend. Being that I'm writing this for people that have limited computer experience, I'm wondering if I'm better off writing a launchable Perl/Tk app or if it would be better to write a CGI app that uses the browser for an interface.

My thinking is that for inexperienced users is that the browser is perhaps the way to go as that's a comfortable environement as they're used to browsing and I'm going to be setting up Apache for an intranet, but I don't want this app to be accessable except for one computer.

Does anyone have any experience in this, pro or con, or is one method preferable to the other?

Thanks for any advice!

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

In reply to CGI vs Tk for application backend by Popcorn Dave

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