I am a very long term user of the famous CGI module. My biggest project is www.algebra.com. There are al;so many others.
Let me mention that my use of perl on the web, a very long time ago, started out with Embperl. At that time, I thought that use of HTML templates with perl code sprinkled in is a great idea. It was not. About two years later, I realized that use of "perl inside HTML" is completely unsuitable for the complex things that I was doing, and I abandoned Embperl and switched to the CGI module. The CGI module uses "HTML generation from perl" and that was much more suitable for me for two reasons. One reason is that my web apps are heavy with logic and relatively light with HTML. The other reason is that I like to separate presentation from application logic, and using perl in proper manner made that easy to accomplish. Fast forward to today, I can see that CGI module is being deprecated! The alternatives to it, suggested by CGI::Alternatives, seem to force on me a different paradigm of development. For example, HTML template seems to be a rerun of Embperl. That gives me bad heartburn. Several other frameworks are completely different functionally, in ways that seem to be not very compatible with my thinking. Anyway, I am sort of open minded to not use perl CGI module for HTML generation. Now what? Is there a HTML generation perl module that does not force me to use "different paradigms", but that simply makes outputting HTML from perl an easy and maintainable task? Thanks a lot. I am not looking to start a flamewar. I hope that I did not insult anyone. If I did, I apologize. All I want it to find a way to generate HTML without switching to completely new, or discarded like Embperl, paradigmatic choices. Thanks a lot.
