Re: Lisp and Web Programming


> To add a module like mod_lisp you don't have to recompile Apache.
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> <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dso.html>
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I knew someone would say it the moment I pressed the 'post' button. If
you have Apache properly installed with DSO compiled in, you don't have
to recompile it, but still need access to its configuration, and need
to restart it. It is not always the case. In particular, many of my
programs run on servers where I cannot add a dso module to Apache.

But I don't need them. Common Lisp based CGIs are fast and smart, they
are faster than C programs and smarter than Python and Perl scripts. I
just do with CGIs only most of the time, and when I need state (and I
rarely do), I let them connect to a long running applications. It is
functional programming, after all.

David

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