Re: Alternatives to CGI perl module

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:46:52AM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote:
> Ruben, thank you for your opinion. You have your own opinion and I have
> mine, and that is what makes the Internet beautiful.
> 
> Take a look at your own website coinhangout.com. It is down right now. But
> take a look at its google cache:
> 
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.coinhangout.com&oq=cache%3Awww.coinhangout.com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1525j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
> 
> click on View Source of that.
> 
> There you see that most of the page is perl code, in embperl wrappers. Just
> a little HTML head and ending is HTML.
> 
> This is what I found to be typical of most pages.


That is called templates, BTW and is common.  In that case I was
importing a large modperl application and embedding it into a second
page.  It was pretty quick and dirty but it did the job to about 80K
hits a day on a little atom fit/pc processor.

I stopped using the page when someone stole all the coins on the site
from their home. I lost my stomach for it and passed the site along to a
friend who may or may not be using it.

That doesn't make CGI.pm any less of a pig.  It is th swiss army knife
of internet programming, but it has a huge cost, especailly if you are
using large pages heavy on content that are cached in RAM.  It also runs
a lot of contacts, and can gum up the OS scheduler and wait cues real good.




> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Ruben Safir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 09/10/2016 09:53 PM, Igor Chudov wrote:
> > > It turns out that HTML has a very minor and subordinate role to perl
> > > application logic, and putting "perl inside html" was completely
> > misguided
> > > and instead I decided to "make html inside perl". Using CGI module of
> > > course. This was far more maintainable.
> >
> >
> > Just for the record, this is not correct and I think time has proven
> > that integrating language into the html output has resulted in a Marjory
> > of active server pages.  Aside from Perl, there has been similar
> > constructions in python, rails, php, etc etc etc...
> >
> > I just have a distaste for opinions spouted as facts.
> >
> > If anything, CGI.PM is the clumsy huge animal and is problematic, even
> > from the beginning.  There has always been work arounds to sidestep it
> > including fastcgi et al.  Use of it is a (huge at times) convenience for
> > some, but speed, organization and efficiency are not it's benefits.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> >
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> > http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> > http://www.brooklyn-living.com
> >
> > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
> > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> >

-- 
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com 

DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive 
http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
http://www.brooklyn-living.com 

Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, 
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013