Re: [9fans] httpd scripting

[matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>]

Charles Forsyth wrote:

>>>RC and friends is enough
>>>
>>>
>
>i did found that sufficient when i did
>a plan 9 httpd years ago, probably before asp let alone php
>had appeared.  i used echo or cat and here documents quite a bit.
>i still think it seems better to generate the html
>within the (obviously) shared dynamic environment provided by
>the rc script rather than have lots of executable fragments embedded in html.
>it needn't be rc of course.
>

the "code fragments in the HTML" model is not very scalable

in fact, content management becomes a total nightmare

you have to move from
"how is the HTML going to display the results of executing this code"
to
"what HTML should the code produce"

It's like it starts you off at the wrong layer of abstraction