In the mid-90's, before mod_perl, I used to generate PHP in minutely cron job using a Perl script from a constantly changing database. That came close to the b

In the mid-90's, before mod_perl, I used to generate PHP in minutely cron job using a Perl script from a constantly changing database. That came close to the best of both worlds at the time: the flexibility of Perl, fed from a database, and no CGI overhead when serving.