CGI Programming in Scheme

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CGI Programming in Scheme

CGI programming is mainly functional programming

The programmatic authoring approach creates a seamless integration between server side programs (calculated documents) and more static WWW documents

LAML support of CGI Programming in Scheme
- A library to deal with the Common Gateway Interface
  - Decoding of URL and browser data to Lisp data structures
    - Both from URL encoding and multipart encoding
  - Encoding of Lisp data structures to URL format
- Generation of HTML (via mirrors).
- Other libraries, for instance dealing with time, colors, and reading/writing of text files.

From a practical point of view Scheme is a realistic language for CGI programming

The CGI library
The encode/decode library
The primitive HTML library
The HTML convenience library
Library overview
IDAFUS - an example WWW system using LAML (net, protected)