Re: Lisp and Web Programming

"david.tolpin@xxxxxxxxx" <david.tolpin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> CGI is de facto standard bridge between a web server and an
> application. mod_lisp is a hack -- it is a C program grafted into one
> particular implementation. FastCGI is slightly better than mod_lisp but
> only exists because writing a fast cGI bridge requires C programming
> anyway; unless the bridge is written in LISP.

apache modules are de facto standards: mod_php, mod_perl, mod_gzip,
etc.

> CGI implemented in Common Lisp is an excellent solution: it eliminates
> to patch a fix the web server, is written in good language, and runs
> faster than a C program doing the same job. And then, when you need
> state, you can connect to a persistent program from within the bridge.

if you really really must use CGI and want it to be fast you could
write a mod_lisp.cgi program, this would be a trivial C program which
reads from **env and translates this into the mod_lisp wire protocol.

--
-Marco
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget the perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen
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