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Since it's talking about Perl CGI websites, the decade for which it's relevant was the 1990s. Phil Greenspun's book Database Backed Websites was published in 1
by antonvs 4y ago
Since it's talking about Perl CGI websites, the decade for which it's relevant was the 1990s.
Phil Greenspun's book Database Backed Websites was published in 1997, and its coverage of CGI already started seeming rather quaint over the next few years as better approaches took over.
- throwaway787544 4y agoPerl was widely used for websites through at least 2005, mod_perl being the dominant expression of it.
- antonvs 4y agoIt was widely used but also widely criticized by that point. Dead man walking, basically.
- eesmith 4y agoWith a '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">' it's no earlier than about 1999, when HTML 4.01 came out. The last big CGI-based web app I did started in 2001. By 2005 (when TurboGears came out) we knew the design was outdated.