[thelist] Simple CGI Languages

[liorean]

Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:
> Hello Experts,
> I do web developing just for fun, as it is my hobby. Therefore, I am still in my
> learning process. In my so far experiences of creating sites, I have never tried
> to experiment with CGI scripts. There are many languages in which CGI scripts
> are written, as I have come to know from TheList.
> 
> My Question:
> 
> Which language (for writing CGI scripts) is the easiest to learn? For the time
> being I want to write some CGI for a feedback form and counting downloads of
> some certain EXE files.
> There are many languages and I just can't figure out where to start. So far, I
> have some experience of JavaScript and Visual Basic 6 among programming
> languages.

Well, personally I think Scheme is really easy to grasp when you get 
into it, but the LISP syntax may be confusing to many. The language is 
centered around a few concepts that are foreign to most imperative or 
procedural programmers, though, so many from C/C++ or Java backgrounds 
seems to thing it really strange. For other languages, Ruby is not 
overly taxing to learn, and sports a really powerful object orientation. 
(More so than python, which seems to be the dream language of half the 
web developers I talk with today. Can't see why myself).

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