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Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm

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From:
Peter Scott
Date:
June 1, 2013 13:20
Subject:
Re: CGI.pm is dead, long live CGI.pm
Message ID:
20130601132024.15633.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
I would like to add a belated argument for the pedagogical value of 
CGI.pm.  When teaching people who are new to the whole web programming 
arena, especially those without O-O experience, CGI.pm makes it easy to 
show them the entire flow of data from the browser to the application and 
back without their having to write their own %ENV-parsing hackery.  

I agree that this is not the way to write web apps that are both 
efficient and simple once someone has gone on to learn Plack, but I am 
talking about a useful stepping-stone in the educational process.

This argument may not be enough to counter the opposing ones, but I 
wanted to state it for the record if nothing else.  Thanks.

-- 
Peter Scott

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