RE: [MacPerl-WebCGI] reading list

["Walter Torres" <walter@tscinternet.com>]

Yes, I agree, for the most part with what your saying. And Randell likes
CGI.pm becasue he doesn't like to deal with HTML, natively, where I like to
deal with native HTML.

As for it being old, it is currently in v2.18 dated 1999/02/23, so its not
that old, but it does use the Perl 4 variable syntax (xx'aa vs xx::aa), but
that has not been a real issue (yet).

Anyway, just me being vocal again.

Walter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-macperl-webcgi@macperl.org
> [mailto:owner-macperl-webcgi@macperl.org]On Behalf Of Vicki Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 4:36 PM
> To: macperl-webcgi@macperl.org
> Subject: RE: [MacPerl-WebCGI] reading list
>
>
> At 14:27 -0700 9/8/99, Walter Torres wrote:
> > Ya know, I have heard others say the same or similar
> things, but I have
> > found that CGI.pm, albeit very good and helpful, is just
> too big for 95%
> >of
> > what I need to do.
> >
> > I just cgi-lib.pl, this takes care of 95% of what I need to
> do, the rest,
> >I
> > use CGI.pm.
>
> The only real problem I have with this is that cgi-lib.pl is
> old (Perl 4)
> and considered deprecated these days as near as I can tell.
>
> For example, one of the slides in Randal Schwartz's talk at the Perl
> Conference discussed CGI scripting... specifically, use
> CGI.pm, don't use
> cgi-lib.pl, if you're still using cgi-lib.pl, upgrade.
>
> But that's Randal...
>
> So if cgi-lib.pl works for you, that's terrific. Just
> understand that it
> probably won't be updated or improved, CGI.pm seems to be the
> recognized
> "way to go" ... and you may not get much help as more people
> use the new
> and stop using the old.
>
> As for "it's just too big"... I tend to pick up an existing script and
> change it, so it's pretty easy to use. Also, I find that many
> things that
> seem too big become less unwieldy with repeated use: e.g.
> module inclusion,
> subroutines, use strict, testing, comments, READMEs, ... Perl :-)
>
> - Vicki
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