[hedora]

With your first example, there was no easy path to compatibly handling form requests. Web browsers really sucked back then.

As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

[thatwasunusual]

> As I understand it, PHP became popular before CGI.pm was ready.

CGI.pm was created long (...) before PHP was released.

[nrdvana]

Was CGI.pm ever "ready"? Modern Perl releases dropped it because it was such a bad design.