What are CGI scripts used for these days?

Question

I\'m pretty well up to speed on general web programming languages, but one of the tools I\'m working with right now is in CGI. All I can tell is that CGI scripts are quite slow.

Answer 1

Much like Cobol and Fortran there are some big money systems built on CGI that will of course be maintained well into the future.

Not that newer software isn't built with all those technologies from time to time.