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September 18, 2000
To boil it all down, personalization is about remembering a bunch of
parameters. Cookies offer a simple way to maintain state, and a good
starting point for working with the underlying principles of developing
Perl scripts that can adapt to user preferences.
In the future we'll look at a more robust personalization system, as
described earlier in this article, that relies more heavily on back-end
databases to store personalization data.
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The Perl You Need to Know
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