Is the real question why use modular code for writing CGI scripts instead of one big script? Or is your question specific to CGI::Application?

In the general sense, modular code for CGI has the same benefits of reusability and abstraction as modular code for anything else. Most of the popular CGI builders and frameworks take that approach, just like CGI::Application, e.g. Catalyst, CGI::Prototype, Gantry, Jifty, Maypole, just to name a few (alphabetically), and there are many more.

Specific to CGI::Application (and other things, too, really) -- why have the .cgi just a thin wrapper around a module? I think that's mostly because you need an executable of some sort and .pm files aren't usually structured to work that way. It's possible -- see How a script becomes a module -- but doesn't really save you much code.

-xdg

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