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Re:Taking PHP Seriously by tyingq on Friday October 14, 2016 @07:25AM (#12707373)
Python via fastcgi, wscgi, etc, is the same pattern. Or mod_python inside Apache.
Re:Taking PHP Seriously by gkya on Saturday October 15, 2016 @06:27AM (#12713479)

  import cgi
Also, the httpd communicates to the CGI program via environment variables so one can also write their program in assembly.