You should take a look at CGI::Application. Starting from a "pure CGI" background, I found it to be very easy to learn, and very appealing in terms of how I can structure my applications.

A really nice feature is the native support for your choice of template systems. (I happened to pick Template::Toolkit, which is quite powerful but well documented and easy to manage, but you have others to choose from.)

Another nice feature is that it's really easy to add new operations (as new pages) in your app, with minimal muss or fuss. Overall, you end up having to write a lot less code than you would with pure CGI, and it tends to be better organized and more coherent.

UPDATE: Having seen the reply below from Your Mother, I'm going to start looking into the recommendations there myself. (But I'll remain open to the possibility that for some developers, CGI::Application is "far enough" along the path that it will suffice for a certain range of web applications.)

In reply to Re: CGI Replacement Recommendations? by graff
in thread CGI Replacement Recommendations? by Anonymous Monk

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