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What is Aptilis
Aptilis is a programing language targeted at web professionals. Because it is very simple - yet powerful - it is good for beginners too. It resembles Good'ol Basic.

What can I do with Aptilis?
Loads. Check the examples:
Web counter, feed-back-form, web based newsgroup, guest book, wap applications, on-line & on-the-fly-graphics, etc. The rest is up to you!

What is CGI?
Common Gateway Interface. It is a standard protocol (a way of doing things) that allows you to run programs behind a Web server. Instead of serving static (dumb) web pages, you can serve the output of a program to the user. The program can choose what to display depending on the circumstances. For example "Yes, your purchase is accepted" or "No, your credit card is dodgy" whereas a web page is always the same.

But I thought CGI was a language!
No, it's not. It's a protocol that most mordern programing languages can understand and follow, but none can do it as easily as Aptilis. For example, Aptilis gives you form fields from a web form directly into variables. No need for extra libraries or complicated things like that.