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0 pointshedora3y ago0 comments

With your first example, there was no easy path to compatibly handling form requests. Web browsers really sucked back then.

As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

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> As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

CGI.pm was created long (...) before PHP was released.

Was CGI.pm ever "ready"? Modern Perl releases dropped it because it was such a bad design.

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0 pointshedora3y ago0 comments

With your first example, there was no easy path to compatibly handling form requests. Web browsers really sucked back then.

As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

> As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

CGI.pm was created long (...) before PHP was released.

Was CGI.pm ever "ready"? Modern Perl releases dropped it because it was such a bad design.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse