[Gardeners] The Common Lisp Directory rewritten in Python

[Brandon Edens]

Seriously though,

What does web.py really buy you? I looked at it after reading the reddit stuff
and it looks pretty damn trivial to me. I mean sure you get some nice ways to
generate some HTML but what else is there beyond that?

Brandon

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:42:25AM +0100, Jeremy Smith wrote:

> On Saturday 01 April 2006 14:34, Marc Battyani wrote:
> > A short announcement: Some of you have might have already noticed the
> > use of URLs for the Common Lisp Directory that indicate that Python
> > code is used. It's indeed the case that we have switched from a
> > server application based on Common Lisp to one based on Python. 
> 
> If it's an April fool, it's a good one! If not, it's a good one anyway. Made 
> me chuckle!
> 
> You could always use Python on Lisp - I managed to run web.py inside Clisp and 
> got it interacting with Lisp callbacks to display the webpages, but the 
> problem is POL doesn't run on CMUCL or SBCL, which is a pain, and web.py 
> doesn't work with Lispworks or Allegro. I need to do a little more work on 
> getting POL to be more portable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
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