Writing CGI Programs in C
C is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. It’s the language in which operating systems, applications, and even other programming languages are written. It’s a compiled, low level language. For these reasons, C programs offer great performance. Because C is generally associated with system programming and has been around for a very long time, C compilers are also tuned to compile applications that offer the best performance possible.
The main problems with C from the CGI programmer’s perspective are the things that make it great for system programming. Most CGI programmers prefer higher level languages that provide lots of built-in functions that make writing CGI programs easy. C, on the other ...
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