I start with my original need for Lisp in the domain of Internet programming. This was not authoring of
static WWW pages, but CGI programming in a better language than Perl
I have used Lisp for many different purposes since the mid-eighties
I wanted to find out if Lisp could be used for server side CGI programming
Languages which are often used for CGI programming:
Perl - a string manipulation language
C - a system programming language
Shell Script - hardly a programming language at all
It is quite natural to consider better alternatives
CGI programming is not necessarily imperative programming
