From: Wilkes Joiner <boognish23@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T12:10:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Random idea: Procedural CGI??

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--- "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> I've been musing about something today,
> and I've decided that one thing making
> CGI tedious is the fact that it's rather
> non-procedural (and not in an OO way).
> 
> By that I mean you're sort of creating
> a state machine by hand every time...
> what if your CGI could "stay alive"
> after being invoked and communicate
> with the web server (by sockets or
> something)?
> 
> That is, I'd like it if I could write
> something like:
> 
>   # Display a form and get the data back
>   results = myform.display()
>   if results.name == ""
>     results = myform.display("Name required")
>   else
>     # Process...
>   end
> 
> Horribly crude example, but do you see
> where I'm going?
> 
> I'd like CGI to be nearer the simplicity
> of old-fashioned gets() and puts().
> 
> 
> Thoughts??
> 
> Release the hounds!
> 
> 
> Hal
> 
> 


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