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You could almost still run PHP scripts from those days. The same basic architecture works you just gotta study the new DB access methods that use prepared state
by jrumbut 6y ago
You could almost still run PHP scripts from those days. The same basic architecture works you just gotta study the new DB access methods that use prepared statements instead of string concatenation/interpolation.
If you used Perl, mod_perl exists and CGI.pm is available in CPAN. The CGI protocol is as viable as it ever was (though of course there are new and improved alternatives).
There are a bunch of minimal stylesheets out there that get you some mobile compatibility, and no IE 6/early Firefox nightmares, so your code can actually be simpler than ever.
- stets 6y agoSomeone should make a contest to revive older tech like perl and make a profitable product from it. Use the oldest tech and see who can make the most valuable product
- redis_mlc 6y agoFYI: Perl has one of the most powerful and modern web frameworks, Mojolicious, and one of the best web form libraries, called CGI::FormBuilder. Besides that, Perl allows forward references and has moderately strong type checking. And mod_perl is the best-performing language accelerator. I cringe whenever I have to downgrade to Python.
- robertlagrant 6y agoI cringe whenever I have to use a language accelerator.