Rediscover (and Structure) CGI with a Simple Link Technique
CGI is the most widely used protocol for Web programming, but it lacks basic programming constructs such as function calls. You can work around these weaknesses by encoding function calls directly into Web links easily creating active links—and you can do it in PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and Java.
by Greg Travis
June 10, 2004
don't like CGI programming because it is unstructured—though programming in general has been structured for many, many years. Web developers have powerful IDEs, formidable application frameworks like Enterprise Java Beans, and various code-generation tools, but still much Web development is based on CGI, or something very much like it, and CGI remains unstructured.
But what if you tried to apply all the structuring techniques that have been developed since the 1950s to CGI development? Not to denigrate the tried-and-true CGI development paradigm, but rather to imagine what kinds of powerful Web programs you could create if you had the time—and to create more time by making Web development faster, easier, and less error-prone.
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don't like CGI programming because it is unstructured—though programming in general has been structured for many, many years. Web developers have powerful IDEs, formidable application frameworks like Enterprise Java Beans, and various code-generation tools, but still much Web development is based on CGI, or something very much like it, and CGI remains unstructured.
