Hi Steve,

Cgi-bin is still very popular and has been improved, so that it is very competitive with the others you listed. As a matter of fact, cgi-bin, asp, asp.net, php, etc are essentially all the same thing. Cgi-bin is the name of the script directory used in Unix/Linux machines before Microsoft discovered the internet. I think IIS uses another name for its asp scripts, but the directory is essentially the same as a cgi-bin directory. Directories used by the others you listed are the equilvalent of the cgi-bin directory.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Perl is a really neat language to use for web development. Once you get use to it, it's alot like FoxPro and VFP. I have found it to be one of the most productive languages when used to develope web base applications. I have also noticed the employment ads listed in the technical magazine are often looking for developers with perl skills.

LelandJ