Re: Lisp and Web Programming

> > 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.
>

Apache is just one particular web server implemented in C for posix
systems. There are many others supporting CGI. I don't want to
recompile Apache just to write a web application in Common Lisp.


> 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.
>

CGI in common lisp is faster than CGI in C: C cannot load memory image,
Lisp can. And more powerful, of course, I can do with data whatever I
want before sending it to the stateful long-running application (if
needed). Besides, I don't want to program in C just to write a web
application in Common Lisp.

My CGIs in Common Lisp are fast and poweful, when they need, they
connect to a stateful framework. No C, Python, Perl, Java involved.
Works with any web server. What's wrong with that?

And yes, I wrote some half million lines in C in my life, rolled out a
few Python and Perl web applications, and am behind at least one big
commercial successful product in Java. But I don't see any reason to
add anything of it to the mix when I program my web applications in
lisp (which I do for 10 years now, in various lisp dialects, albeit
only for a few months in Common Lisp).

David

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