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

[Christopher Biggs]

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Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 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'.

When I write web apps using CGI.pm I load the bits for the stateful
form processing and other cool jobs, and blow off the unnecessary
bloat for headers, anchors etc (which are better done using "here
documents").

--cjb

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