Re: Dylan for Web Programming...

[Rob Myers <address@hidden>]

On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 10:45 AM, Ivan K wrote:

> Just curious.....can dylan be used for web programming..like
> perl,java,tcl etc......???

There's a Dylan web server and page system for Fun-Dev:

	http://carlgay.home.attbi.com/koala/

which looks very cool. There's a CGI library for Gwydion in 
/contributions. Both compilers have database and XML libraries. There 
are XML-RPC libraries for Fun-Dev at Chris Double's site.

> i guess CGI scripting is possible....just like in other
> languages...but this is not  a practical solution.......any
> possibility of embedded apache support like mod_dylan maybe?????

Both Fun-Dev and Gwydion could wrap the Apache APIs, and Fun-Dev might 
be able to dynamically compile scripts, but a mod_ for a compiled 
language might not be so good. Maybe Koala's DSP page system could be a 
mod_ so it would compile under Gwydion and run on UN*X? A mod_mindy 
(Dylan interpreter) would be good but would lack macros.

- Rob.