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

[Rob Kearey]

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Anthony Towns wrote:

> 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)

So long as you're the only person maintaining the code, fine. For
something that has to last through the next minor change, then
nononononono. If there's a problem with CGI.pm, then the module should
be fixed. No, I am *not* volunteering.

> Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>

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