From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EDB4C63.5080902@proweb.co.uk> From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] httpd scripting References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:08:51 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c2684f52-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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