[HN Gopher] Great CPAN modules released last week
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Great CPAN modules released last week
Author : peateasea
Score : 46 points
Date : 2025-01-12 10:39 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (niceperl.blogspot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (niceperl.blogspot.com)
| minaguib wrote:
| What a blast from the past - the CGI library is still receiving
| some love...
| samsk wrote:
| Whats important, its only 'love' a.k.a. no major API change
| twice a year, as in many of those 'modern' languages.
|
| And its no past for me !-)
| oalders wrote:
| I found myself working on a CGI script just last week. Last
| year I was asked to patch a production CMS that was just a
| giant collection of CGI scripts.
|
| This stuff is still out there and when it's done well, it "just
| works". I'm not saying CGI is the future, but I did find it
| refreshing to edit a script and then have the change
| immediately available without waiting for some daemon to
| restart/reload.
| jgalt212 wrote:
| Preach. CGI made the web dynamic. Before this, it was just a
| libary.
| brightball wrote:
| All I hear when somebody says "Lambda" is "CGI"
| creaktive wrote:
| Perl lives!
| brightball wrote:
| There was a solid talk on Modern Web Development with Perl in
| August.
|
| https://youtu.be/ommhbiRx-vI?si=eSZQUKxaSUwAyeXI
| riffraff wrote:
| Interesting that one of the modules is a statically typed perl
| dialect(?)
|
| https://metacpan.org/release/KIMOTO/SPVM-0.990038
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