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Originally Posted by Latch
How can CGI have been dead for several decades? The Web's only been around for one-one and a half.
While CGI isn't as common anymore when we have PHP/ASP/etc, it still is out there quite a bit.. so I wouldn't be so quick to write it off.
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Ok, decades was an overstatement - I was just trying to express the
extent to which it has died over the recent years
I should clarify that I was talking about Perl CGI being completely superceded by better Perl technologies (one of which I talk about below); C CGI certainly still has its place - niche as it may be - which it is unlikely to leave any time soon (mostly because it
is so niche).
So, since Perl has traditionally accounted for the vast majority of CGI development, and by now it is
very difficult to come up with a valid reason to do new Perl web development with CGI, CGI is effectively dead and buried. Incidentally, "existing code-base" very rarely turns out to be a valid reason,
especially with Perl