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Re: Re: Are we obsessed with CGI?

by cascade_fx (Sexton)
on Apr 14, 2002 at 14:40 UTC ( [id://158935]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Are we obsessed with CGI?
in thread Are we obsessed with CGI?

I agree and would like to add another wrinkle. Have you really looked at most of the boxed and other forms of packaged software out there, lately? Most of it could be replicated with some perl, a web front-end and a database backend.

I work at a university (as a network/computer support consultant). I was coming at Perl for writing some monitoring utilities (using Lincoln Stein's book, among others). However, while talking this up to one of the students that you tend to cross paths with at a university, he told me how gung ho he was on Perl. He would go so far as to recode his CS projects that were language specific into Perl just to show off the features to his instructors.

We discussed it for a bit and he was quite convincing. On the outside, you may have to use DHTML or CSS or Javascript to get some of the more polished GUI elements in, but his argument that even that was easier than having to deal with a lot of the GUI toolkits that were out there. He prefered HTML. He had a lot of good points.

--cascadefx

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