> It has no place in todays world except of educational use.
That's overly strong. I will create a CGI app every now and then. I can use basically any language I want. Not a lot of thought has to go into it. As the article says, it's a simple approach that makes sense for those of us that aren't so familiar with web development (we're usually making those apps for ourselves). In particular, the "you can never have too many dependencies" philosophy of modern web developers is strange to me.
That's overly strong. I will create a CGI app every now and then. I can use basically any language I want. Not a lot of thought has to go into it. As the article says, it's a simple approach that makes sense for those of us that aren't so familiar with web development (we're usually making those apps for ourselves). In particular, the "you can never have too many dependencies" philosophy of modern web developers is strange to me.