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Message: [QUOTE="cartercc, post: 4831085"] The term 'CGI' has a lot of ambiguity associated with it. You can read some of the previous posts in this thread to see what I mean. Technically, I don't use CGI, but perl-mod. Be that as it may, many times CGI is used as a shorthand for a method of building web projects. The idea is that you build scripts that spit out little pieces of markup, rather than, like PHP, JSP, CF, and others, building markup that spits out little pieces of scripts. Why would you want to do one rather than the other? One reason might be separation of your business logic from your interface, another might be education and training, and another might be personal preference. True. Perl isn't what I'd call a RAD technology, at least compared to ..NET, in which you can built a fully functional database project in just a few hours. OTOH, you can accompolish things in Perl that you can't in other technologies, including building a library that does exactly what you want it to do. Having done that, you can build a web project of arbitrary size with simply a database and one script of fifty lines or less. Do that with .NET! Embedded Perl has its uses, but I do not like embedded technologies. If you want an embedded technology, use ColdFusion. To each his own. In my current position, I use four technologies, .NET, CFMX, JSP, and Perl, and (depending on the project) I'd say that Perl certainly holds its own. CC [/QUOTE]