[10419] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. Mallery)
Wed Nov 13 16:55:47 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:28:40 -0500
To: www-talk@w3.org, www-announce@w3.org
From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
Cc: info-mcl@digitool.com, clim@bbn.com, slug@ai.sri.com,
common-lisp@ai.sri.com, alu@ai.sri.com, acl@cs.columbia.edu,
aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, colibri@let.ruu.nl,
comp-ai-nat-lang@cs.utexas.edu, corpora@hd.uib.no,
elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, empiricists@unagi.cis.upenn.edu,
IR-L@uccvma.ucop.edu, LN@frmop11.cnusc.fr, linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu,
nl-kr-mods@snyside1.sunnyside.com, laws@ai.sri.com,
isafp@csf.colorado.edu, the-usual-suspects@ai.mit.edu
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Server: A full-featured, production-quality, HTTP 1.1 Compliant 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.=20
(Cooler than being last to market!)
* Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly.=20
(Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!)
* Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly.=20
(Cooler than typing it in by hand!)
* Creating 3D VRML worlds on the fly.
(Cooler than learning OpenInventor!)
* Using an extensible presentation lattice
to accept input or present output.
(Cooler than duplicating endless input validators,
and then getting a better idea!)=20
* Developing complex or advanced Web applications.=20
(Cooler than serving static files!)
* Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites.=20
(Cooler than even an "Active-X enchanced" site!)=20
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 kindsof=
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)
* Windows NT (Allegro) (Several new Lisps currently being tuned for NT).=20
* Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0)
Additional ports are underway.
Reality: This server was the first known HTTP 1.1 implementation last=
August, and has subsequently
been through a second release cycle. Also included in the distribution are a=
program-level
client with 1.0 persistent connections, an HTML parser, and a=
constraint-based web walker. =20
Snap up this opportunity now before the next release add new modules to the=
learning curve.
