[Coco] The Coco's first webserver, written in Basic09

[Aaron Wolfe]

Updated version of the web server is back online.  It can now serve
files from disk and is (hopefully) a little more robust.

-Aaron


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Christian Lesage <hyperfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wayne Campbell wrote:
>>
>> The converter would be easy to write, yes. But Basic09 is not a script
>> language like javascript. That code would have to be loaded into Basic09 to
>> be run, and that is a waste of memory, and is slower than running packed
>> procedures from the command line with RunB. It would be the same as running
>> Visual Studio every time you created a c++ source file.
>
> This is why I wrote "you compile the resulting PROCEDURE into bytecode, and
> it becomes the active page that the server RUNs whenever it needs to display
> it". What's wrong with that? I admit I haven't programmed in BASIC09 for the
> last 20 years, so you certainly know a lot more than I do about how it uses
> memory. But the manual says RUN "can also be used to call a previously
> compiled (by the PACK command) procedure", so it seems like a logical choice
> to me.
>
> Besides, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. I think the
> question is: "What would waste the most resources?" Writing an interpreter
> within the interpreter, or using the one you already have?
>
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