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Dynamic Web Technologies

Perl/CGI

Perl's interface to the CGI system for Web Pages

Pros

• Perl/CGI main advantage is the easy that information and algrorithms can be impleemented.

Cons

• The code is the 'first class' object and the HTML tends to be hacked into complex print statements. This makes the algrothms simple to change but the HTML presetantion difficult.

PHP

Is a kind of hacked perl / javascript that used the ASP metaphore.

Pros

• All Form, Cookies etc are auto converted to global varables.

• The HTML is the 'first class' object and the coding is second, this makes changing the HTML simple

Cons

ASP

JSP