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Hour 11. Other Popular CGI Programming Languages

One of the most powerful features of CGI is its language independence. Any programming language that meets a few simple criteria can be used to develop CGI programs. In this hour, I’m going to explain how to write CGI programs in two languages other than Perl.

In this hour, you’ll learn

What criteria permit a language to be used for CGI programs
How to write CGI programs using the Bourne shell
How to write CGI programs in C
How to use the cgic library with your C programs
How to write CGI programs in Python

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