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Issue #383 - 2018-11-26 - To CGI or not to CGI?
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Hi there! During the last two weeks there was a little storm in the teacup. It started with an article about CGI.pm on perl.com that struck the nerves of Dave Cross and a few other people who seem to be against the use of CGI.pm and CGI in general. The others came pointing out the value in the simplicity of CGI and the fact that CGI.pm comes (or rather just came) with standard Perl that eliminates (eliminated) the need for installations. I personally think that is totally ok to write small things as CGI if that's the only thing you know and/or the environment has limitations. I also think it was a mistake to remove CGI.pm from core, but who asks me anyway :) Off Topic: I've started to learn Spanish. First via Duolingo and by finding content on the web. A few days ago I had the first live lesson via Italki. I enjoyed it very much. (In case you'd like to try it, that link is an affiliate link that will give both of us some credit.) Anyway, enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Ben Bullock (BKB) How do you validate your input? Are you trying to be nice and accept input with a typo? What if it wasn't a typo? |
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by Konstantin Uvarin 'Finding the coat for the button' - apparently this expression translated from Hungarian has no meaning in English. It is something along the line: 'finding a problem for a solution'. |
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by Ben Bullock (BKB) At the first glance it would seem this is another article in the CGI series, but no, this actually explains why you should (almost) never use 'eval'. The evil eval. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) The original article that seemed to be innosent, but managed to stirr up the feelings. | 
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by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE) Drawing upon the example of Dan, Aristotle shows other alternatives to CGI. |
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by Tim King Actually an older article that somehow got into the mix. |
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) mata::hack was a small event with a big impact on the Perl community. A few people got together to improve MetaCPAN. | 
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