[dumbmatter]

...which says

> Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.

[user5994461]

It's just a trivial example to show what the languages look like with variables, loop and print.

CGI is not used to deploy web applications anymore, I am aware of that. That's a far leap from saying the module is "broken, bad and wrong".

Another commenter pointed out that there are typo in the example so it doesn't work.