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CGI Programming with Program State

In many CGI programs we need to store a 'program state'. Often, data is transferred to and from a database. We modify the previous picture in include this observation.

The interaction between a browser and a CGI program, which uses a database for storing the program state

Many real world applications need to maintain program state which changes as a function of time

This calls for imperative programming techniques