Hi!
First of all, I'm amazed by the potential of CGI. But I'm fairly new to Perl and I'm wondering if it were better for me to code my dynamic web content in C++ instead of Perl. With 'dynamic web content' I mean a community site that should have the potential to grow. Yes, I know that I'd have to compile the code every time I change a tiny bit, but the reason why I'm thinking about prefering C++ is that I'm pretty familiar with it (compared to Perl), since I used it for years now.
So, here's my question: is there any good reason why I should prefer Perl? Take www.thescripts.com for example, or any other large website. Would it be a bad idea to code such a project in C/C++ or any other compiler language and then use CGI to communicate with Apache?
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Perl. It's just that I know C++ much better. I know how to do what I want. And I know what I get.
So any help is welcome, especially from those who know both C++ and Perl. :)