I would have thought CGI.pm was old school, not cgi-app, but maybe Perl is 'old school', or the presence of 'CGI' in CGI::Application? At least it is also hardcore, unless that wasn't a compliment. Perhaps adding CGI::Application::Dispatch would make it less old school. Of course, Catalyst (in the Perl world), and other non-Perl frameworks (RoR, django) get all the hype and press. Hardcore is definitely something commendable, but not old school, especially in Perl space where a certain class of old code is quite nasty.