RE: Why perl lost steam...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Stephenson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20 September 2010 21:40
> To: beginners cgI
> Subject: Why perl lost steam...
>=20
> This email list used to bustle. It was active and vibrant.
>=20
> No more. Now it is practically dead.
>=20
> It would seem that right now, when "Web Apps" are really coming into
> their own, CGI scripts written in Perl would be the place that
> "Beginners" would start looking.
>=20
> But there are no beginners here anymore.
>=20
> Why is that?

[DP] The perl beginners list is still very active and I think that's=20
where all the traffic tends to be. If you were writing a "Web App"=20
though, you would be better served by a perl framework like Catalyst or=20
CGI::Application. Personally I only use CGI for smaller tasks.
Dp.