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I built a bunch of "contact us" pages for folks over the years and always used python with the built in CGI library. The python folks thought so little of CGI that they ripped it out of the standard library. I wish I had just used Perl like god had intended CGI scripts to be written.

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>The python folks thought so little of CGI that they ripped it out of the standard library.

IIRC, the issue was that they didn't have a maintainer for the cgi library anymore, and that is why they removed it.

I had a good laugh when reading this.

On that note, I recently revived some nearly 20 year old perl CGI stuff. Had some minor syntax issues (language ambiguities which got fixed), but it was running just fine after having fixed these. There was also some C code with it (some tooling), needed header include fixing + function renaming, otherwise still worked. Small project all in all, not reliant on a lot of external things.

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