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.
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