Re^2: Tao Perl Ching - The Scripture of the Way of Perl


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Re^2: Tao Perl Ching - The Scripture of the Way of Perl

by itub (Priest)

on Dec 18, 2004 at 19:52 UTC ( [id://415903]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I agree that CGI.pm is generally not the best CGI module. But its main advantage is that comes pre-installed on the system because it is a core module. Sadly, it has a lot of historical cruft that has to be kept for backwards compatibility. As for it not being "modern" I suspect it is because it was originally written a very long time ago.

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Re^3: Tao Perl Ching - The Scripture of the Way of Perl
by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 18, 2004 at 21:02 UTC

I agree that CGI.pm is generally not the best CGI module. But its main advantage is that comes pre-installed on the system because it is a core module.

I prefer to call that "standard module" and call modules that enable core functionality "core modules", like strict, warnings and File::Glob.

Anyway, it's not hard to deal with both, as interfaces are compatible:

# Fall back to CGI.pm if CGI::Simple is unavailable.
# We prefer CGI::Simple because it much lighter and faster.
my $cgi = 
    eval  { require CGI::Simple; CGI::Simple->new }
    || do { require CGI;         CGI        ->new };
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