[Gardeners] Some feedback about the The Common Lisp Directory project. (And no, it's not in Python... ; -)

[Jeff Wood]

Marc Battyani wrote:
> "Marc Battyani" <Marc.Battyani at fractalconcept.com> 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.
>>     
>
> As most of you have probably found out now, the switch of the Common Lisp
> Directory to Python was only effective on April First. ;-)
>
> Here are some feedback and real life data from the Common Lisp Directory
> project.
>
> Hardware: 1Gb Dual Intel Xeon 2.80GHz Debian box.
> Software: Apache+mod_lisp+Lispworks
>
> Some data taken on April 2 (in decreasing order :):
>
> 42 041 200 Hits since the Dec 15 2005 (start of the linkit project)!
>
> 41 997 354 Hits served by the same Lisp process, the other ones are the
> logo/jpg etc. (with a max at 930K hits/day and several days with more than
> 800K hits)
>
> 34591 user sessions (robots excluded)
>
> 612 registered users
>
> 589 items:
>   287 Libraries/Tools/Software
>   155 People
>   101 Documents/Web sites
>    22 Implementations
>    15 Groups/Organizations
>     9 Events
>
> First some explanation about why so many hits:
> As some of you already know, my framework is intended for complex real time
> collaborative applications and for that there is a 2 seconds Ajax like keep
> alive/bidirectional connection. In the case of a public application like the
> cl-directory this continuous connection is not useful but induces a lots of
> hits. For now, I've reduced the connection frequency to 5 seconds and I will
> suppress it completely for all the non interactive pages in the future.
>
> Anyway this highlights the rock solid stability and reliability of a Lisp
> webapp. The Lisp image is the same one from December. It has never crashed,
> though the application have evolved from linkit (an improved reddit like
> app) to the cl-directory with several versions that have completely changed
> the applicative and object model.
>
>   
>> server application based on Common Lisp to one based on Python. The
>> reason is that we had some problems with regard to multithreading and
>> the HTML code generation utilities that we use.
>>     
>
> On the contrary, the hability to blend the HTML generation in the Lisp code
> through HTML macros is far better than every alternative that I know of.
>
> [...]
>   
>> Needless to say
>> that we stand fully committed behind Common Lisp and especially the
>> Common Lisp Directory, due to its popularity with users and its
>> recognition in major search engines (Google, etc.) in a very short
>> amount of time.
>>     
>
> At least that part of the message is true. After only 2.5 month with some
> real content, the Common Lisp Directory already consistently appears in the
> very first links for a lot of common lisp related searches on Google.
> Sometimes it's even the first one!
>
> So don't worry, the CLD will stay in Common Lisp and will continue to
> improve. The next version (when I find some time to play with this) will
> enable anybody to edit the CLD content but still in a moderated way to avoid
> being spammed
>
> In the mean time you can already add notes and comments to the directory
> pages and of course submit new pages.
>
> BTW some people have complained that they could not edit their own
> libraries/persons/etc. entries. In that case just send us an email with your
> cl-directory user login name and we will give you the modification rights
> you want.
>
> As a conclusion, I would say that Common Lisp has once again proven to be a
> very good way to very quickly build rock solid and reliable web
> applications.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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If you don't mind the question, which implementation of CL are you using 
???

packages, etc ... ???

--jw.


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