Re: What Comes Next?

This thread confuses me.

Open Source CGI is the best current all-round problem-handling tool I know
of for web development.  While it is true that a web server is primarily
focused on HTTP, I know of no serious web site, commercial, academic or
simply informational, that does not depend to some extent on CGI.

Yes, there are new standards for forms coming and yes, XML will provide us
with amazing linking capabilities.  Server-side programming, however, is a
field that provides way to much functionality to be replaced with
either...am I missing something?

Java, C, Perl, ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, Fortran...these provide tools that
HTML or XML can not duplicate.  Why would we think they will fade away...at
least before the some new generation of networking technology obsoletes all
present programming methods....:).

D


----- Original Message -----

> I'm not intending to begin any argument on this, only to be clear. A web
> server serves HTML pages and little more. Anything else that you're going
> to do has to be added in or installed on top of that. Even server side
> includes are not a given in every environment. They must be enabled and
> supported. According to many pundits I've read lately, it's true that Perl
> is not going away anytime soon, but many people entering the field
> currently will never have the opportunity to deal with it.
>

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