[H-GEN] Perl Novitiates (was: CGI Troubles.)

[Christopher Biggs]

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Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 
>   sample.pl - show folks how to code CGI in perl (more) correctly
> 

Yeah, what he said, and more of it.  CGI.pm is good stuff.

I'm occasionally beaten into maintaining some CGI written using
cgiparse (a small C proglet from the days of CERN httpd), korn shell
scripts, awk[1], sed et al...

If I ever hear of anyone else writing CGI programs like that I'm going
to kick your asses from here to breakfast.  *Nobody* should ever have
to maintain that shit.

--cjb

[1] Not just trivial awk, but awk written by an anti-perl awk bigot
    who never used comments and embedded 50-line awk in-line proglets
    in the middle of enormous shell scripts.  Hi DM if you're
    reading. :-)
        
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