Disagree. You don't need frameworks. You can still use CGI.pm if you want to. But doing so will make your web app look and behave like a 1998 dinosaur, and usi

Disagree. You don't need frameworks. You can still use CGI.pm if you want to. But doing so will make your web app look and behave like a 1998 dinosaur, and using a framework is just so much easier, more comfortable and less error-prone. While frameworks add complexity as far as the computer is concerned, they remove complexity as far as the human developer is concerned. I can write a web app in Ruby on Rails much faster than I could ever have with mod_perl, and the result is better-looking and easier to maintain.