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Re: CGI Help

Why C/C++?  Because I'm too lazy to learn Perl :)

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Brian Barrett wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:16:05PM -0400, Tom wrote:
> > I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for 
> > C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and
> > involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you
> > know what I mean).  Any help would be great!
> 
> I guess I have to ask - why use C/C++ for that?  Perl is much easier
> to set up for text parsing.  Yes, there is a performance hit, but not
> that significant for most applications.  With the CGI module for perl,
> forms processing is really easy.
> 
>  Brian Barrett
>  http://www.nd.edu/~bbarrett
>  University of Notre Dame Class of 2001
>  Department of Electrical Engineering
>
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