I find CGI.pm to be EXTREMELY useful. I use it in every cgi script I write. Particularly, the header() and start_html() routines are great time savers. And it's much easier and safer to handle input from the browser with CGI.pm. Learn how to use it--it's easy and you won't be wasting your time. On the other hand, I often tend to use plain print statements for printing out the html tags in between:

I do this:
print "<h1>blah blah blah</h1>";

instead of the CGI.pm way:
print $query->h1(--I'm not even sure of this syntax--);
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I don't have anything against the CGI.pm way, but why learn another syntax when I already know HTML? I don't see any particular advantage of the latter way, not even a savings in typing. If I'm missing something here, somebody please tell me.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? --Larry Wall

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