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Beginners Guide to CGI in Perl
What can CGI do for me?

Nathan Poole

The question is more, what can't it do for you. No, it can't drive the kids the soccer practise or please your signaficant other, but it can make your web life a lot easier. With CGI (Common Gateway Interface) you can create programs to update your webpage, allow users to send you email, check errors, and pretty much anything else you can think of. There are very few limitations. How does CGI chalk up to other languges such as javascript? Javascript is very good in what it does. It's a terriffic language, but it doesn't have the ability to do what CGI can, nor does CGI have the abililty to reproduce Javascript's effects. The bottom line is, use what you need. I wouldn't use HTML for updating a file, as I wouldn't use XML to create graphics.

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