Perl's not unique in that way. Any language can talk cgi. That's literally the purpose of cgi. Perl was just the popular scripting language of the day. If yo

Perl's not unique in that way. Any language can talk cgi. That's literally the purpose of cgi. Perl was just the popular scripting language of the day. If you're using something other than cgi to get your httpd to talk to your webapp, your answer lies in understanding the architectural decisions of that tool.