Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Ricardo Signes > <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: >> I think it's time to seriously consider removing CGI.pm from the core >> distribution. It is no longer what I'd point *anyone* at for writing *any* >> sort of web code. It is in the core, as far as I know, because once it was the >> state of the art, and a major reason for many people to use the language. > > AFAIK, it's in core because perl 4 shipped with all then-known > libraries and CPAN wasn't founded until a year after perl 5 came out > :-| > This is probably the reason it is still in. +1 for removal I don't use Perl for webhosting, so none of the CGI stuff or numerous DB modules I have ever used.Thread Previous | Thread Next