What's the best way to write a Perl CGI application?

Every example I've seen of CGI/Perl basically a bunch of print statements containing HTML, and this doesn't seem like the best way to write a CGI app. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks.

EDIT: I've decided to use CGI::Application and HTML::Template, and use the following tutorial: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd363fg9_77gb4hdh7b. Thanks!

Solution

Absolutely (you're probably looking at tutorials from the 90s). You'll want to pick a framework. In Perl-land these are the most popular choices:

CGI::Application - very lightweight with lots of community plugins
Catalyst - heavier with more bells and whistles
Jifty - more magical than the above

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