To me it has always felt like a underspecified hack but maybe I am talking out of ignorance. (I did read the RFC though( I think it's strange idea to run to get

To me it has always felt like a underspecified hack but maybe I am talking out of ignorance. (I did read the RFC though( I think it's strange idea to run to get a bunch of arguments that you have to get from the environment and/or the stdin and parse the whole of it and then try to programmatically output it all by printing to stdout. No wonder people have come up with template languages that are html supersets and that work with a preprocessor. I don't use CGI but when I do I like the simplicity of Haserl (Basic template language + any interpreter, lua by default) : https://haserl.sourceforge.net/ https://haserl.sourceforge.net/