From: John C. Mallery
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (58.3a)
Date:
Message-ID: <3135C601.4197@ai.mit.edu>
Server: A full-featured, production-quality Web server
wholely written in Common Lisp is *freely* available
from the following URL at the MIT Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory.
Information: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html
Q: Why might you care about this?
A: You might be interested in:
* Minimizing the cycle time from conceptualization to market.
(Cooler than being last to market!)
* Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly.
(Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!)
* Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly.
(Cooler than typing it in by hand!)
* Developing complex or advanced Web applications.
(Cooler than serving static files!)
* Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites.
(Cooler than even a "Netscape enchanced" site!)
Language: Common Lisp is a dynamic, object-oriented programming
language that is used to develop and deploy leading-edge applications
in university, government, and business settings. This highly
flexible and evolvable language has been typically used to develop
large and complex artificial intelligence or natural languagge
understanding systems. These kinds of power programming tools are
becoming increasingly relevant for Web developers as ever more
is required in ever less time.
Platforms: The server presently runs with full source-compatibility
on the following platforms:
* Macintosh (MCL - Comes on the CD)
* UNIX (Allegro, LispWorks, Lucid)
(Many flavors, including SunOS, Solaris, SGI, OSF)
* Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0)
Additional ports are underway to the Windows environment and the free
CLisp for UNIX.