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

[Anthony Towns]

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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:09:19AM +1000, Jason Parker wrote:
>   use CGI qw/:standard :netscape/;
> 
>   print header,
>     start_html('This is how one writes CGI scripts in perl'),
                                       ^^^

ITYM, 'This is how one writes slow cumbersome CGI scripts in perl'.
HTH, HAND.

Cheers,
aj (CGI.pm is *very* bloated and slow and memory hoggish. It turns out to
    be much, much, much better to just use prints and such by hand. Or at
    least, that's what happened wrt the Debian bug tracking system CGIs)

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