So people still learning Perl and CGI programming?

I am teacher. Yes CGI are still running in a race but go for advance its a Rule of Nature never stick to old go for new In my opinion you should go for ASP.Net or JSP(Java server pages)and Php is also a good option IN ASP.net and JSP the Common gateway interface is removed by their ASP environment and in JSP i dont Know sorry NOw its your choice

i think perl is good for security grue . my friend had his industrail training in intel branch and they learn him perl because he was in IT security department

I agree with above response.. that those are different terminologies.. well if you want to learn scripting language.. go for python and perl.. where PHP is programming language.. and in computer world nothing is outdated.. till the time many softwares are being developed in C/C++ too..

Just a quick correction, Perl and PHP are programming languages while CGI is a general term and Apache is a web server. Technically, even that statement is wrong since perl and PHP are scripting languages rather than programming in the truest sense. Neither is out of date. Perl has advanced so much in recent years that it is almost considered an operating system. I believe that perl based operating systems do already exist, while Linux, BSD, and other unix style systems heavily rely on perl. PHP is more popular for CGI scripting these days since it is largely built into the web page itself rather than being a separate CGI application. A person should try to learn both!