--- Guy Hulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:26 -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > > BTW, I like the term "failed experiment". Isn't everything a > "failed > > experiment"? Should we remove CGI.pm from the CPAN because > CGI.pm-style > > code is a "failed experiment" in writing web applications? > > Academic thinking again. > > CGI is highly successful.
It's highly successful in the way that COBOL* is highly successful: for a while it was the main game in town and if you wanted to play, that's what you played. Now that CGI.pm is old and outdated (even Lincoln Stein has admitted that he'd write it differently today), we're largely stuck with it for legacy issues. "Inertia" is not the same thing "success". Cheers, Ovid * I'm an ex-COBOL programmer and I know exactly what I'm talking about here. -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
