It was thus said that the Great Joshua Kogut once stated: > > Also, what advantages over perl, php, heck, even asp does C have? Many of > these server-side languages have syntax that is closely related to C. > There's a better way to do this, and you would be saving yourself alot of > time and effort. Speed (which may not be all that much of an advantage) and size (Perl and PHP are both huge). It also doesn't hurt if you have a library to help with the CGI side of things (and I do---been in constant development since 1996). It even includes a templating system [1][2]. It's also about 24k of compiled code, which today isn't all that large at all. Of course, it helps to know C when using the code. [4] -spc (And it's GNU GPLed too! Although the documentation is a bit lacking ... ) [1] Well, not quite yet as the code has finally stabalized to a point where I can consider adding it to the base library. [2] It's a simple templating system that has the benefit [3] that it is impossible to include program code in the templates. [3] At least, *I* consider it a benefit. [4] No buffer overflows that I've been able to find---string and file manipuation have been abstracted and it's very rare that I actually have to deal with a character buffer directly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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