[galdosdi]

It is true the time when it might have been sane to write CGI in C was very brief. Perl took over almost immediately (and to my chagrin, eventually PHP ate Perl's lunch). I remember reading CGI books that would explain how to do it in either Perl or C, the justification being "in case you need C for performance" but in reality I don't think a ton of C CGI was written. There was definitely some though; I recall poking around in cgi-bin directories and finding some compiled executables (could have been another compiled language like C++) and being disappointed I couldn't view the source like with .pl files.

It really takes you back to a very specific point in time though. A magical time when every year or month software and internet technology would take big leaps and bounds. When you might do things in a way that is very manual and slow compared to today and yet it was amazing at the time.

[int_19h]

I remember learning CGI to write a web app in late 90s. Most resources at the time seemed to focus on it as a Perl thing, with all code examples etc being in Perl, other languages mentioned briefly if at all (usually at the beginning, when explaining the "it's just a process" model).