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Re: Java for CGI

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Fri Sep 1 22:53:36 1995

To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:47:43 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <v01510102ac6c89eb9a9a@[192.0.2.1]> from "Glen C. Perkins" at Sep 1, 95 12:30:00 pm
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)

> 
> Since the webmasters who will be writing the web applets for a site will
> also be the ones who write all the CGI scripts, too (in general), I would
> like to see Java make a strong attempt (with its standard libraries) to
> replace Perl as the standard CGI scripting language.


Errr... CGi actually has TWO uses.

Adding special functionality for the USER, and adding extra logging/whatever
for the webadmin.

I think java can take care of the user end of things. But I think perl is
going to stay where it is on the webadmin side.

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