Why no Flash forum?

**brendandonhue** · 08-24-2003 08:47 PM

Whats wrong with older technology? Its had more time to progress. CGI is still useful and works very well.

**PeOfEo** · 08-24-2003 09:08 PM

eh... something about not being the latest and greatest. I have not used it myself, but I hear things about the syntax being annoying and it being hard to use. Any comments on that? I would say cgi is still widely used but since the creation of other server side languages people have moved away from cgi i guess.

**brendandonhue** · 08-24-2003 10:04 PM

Im pretty sure your confusing CGI with Perl. CGI is not a language. It is an interface for languages to communicate with the server (or something like that, im not an expert).

**pyro** · 08-24-2003 10:10 PM

Originally posted by brendandonhue
It is an interface for languages to communicate with the server

Yep, that about sums it up...

**PeOfEo** · 08-25-2003 04:22 PM

But CGI goes hand in hand with perl, Perl is used to do CGI and they are both ageing technologies then.

**pyro** · 08-25-2003 04:26 PM

But Perl is still a very applicable web language...

**brendandonhue** · 08-25-2003 04:47 PM

CGI is not related to Perl. You can use CGI to interface with just about any language including PHP and I think ASP.

**Jupac** · 08-25-2003 07:34 PM

most people use perl or cgi cause most free host and some paid host only offer cgi or perl

**AdamBrill** · 08-25-2003 11:09 PM

Originally posted by brendandonhue
CGI is not related to Perl. You can use CGI to interface with just about any language including PHP and I think ASP.

Well, considering that ASP isn't a language either...

In that case, PHP isn't a full programming language either.

Anyway, you must admit that CGI and Perl are used inter-changeably by most people. It's not that you couldn't use another language to write CGI programs, but about 99% of the CGI programs use Perl. I don't think I have ever seen one that didn't use Perl(besides a couple written in C...).

Originally posted by lakers01
most people use perl or cgi cause most free host and some paid host only offer cgi or perl

Where do you get your info from?

There are free PHP servers EVERYWHERE nowadays...

**Jupac** · 08-25-2003 11:17 PM

Originally posted by AdamBrill

Where do you get your info from? There are free PHP servers EVERYWHERE nowadays...

ok 25%

**Jupac** · 08-25-2003 11:26 PM

i mean like geocities,tripod,angelfire,etc
u get the picture

**PeOfEo** · 08-26-2003 04:31 PM

I did not think those three host supported any server side technologies. Anyways I just was thinking if ASP uses vbscript ASP.NET uses C# and VB,, CGI uses PERL, and JSP uses java, and so on and so fourth why do we refer to them as server side languages? Wouldnt processes be a better term? Just one of those thoughts that I have everyonce and a while....

**Jupac** · 08-26-2003 05:16 PM

I use to use them and all exeptd geocities have cgi capibilty but not full like no sendmail

**brendandonhue** · 08-26-2003 05:26 PM

Thats true-ASP is similar to CGI in that its not truly a language either.

lakers01-you said that most people use CGI/Perl because thats what hosts offer. This is completely untrue. Do you have any evidence to backup that fact?

Im not sure if this has always been the case, but currently none of geocities, angelfire, tripod support Perl/CGI. Maybe they used to?

**Jupac** · 08-26-2003 05:37 PM

http://clickherefree.com/cgi-bin/web...rch&Active=Yes Out of 470 i would say 270/470

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