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[Richard Coleman]

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Tcl/Tk should probably be discarded.  We can't use the X interfacing
>     because, well, it requires X and we are dedicated to a web environment
>     now, and Tcl duplicates enough of PHP4's functionality that if we are
>     going to select any language as the backend to the PHP4 pages I would
>     rather it be an OO language.

I'll through out one other possibility to consider.  Use tcl (not tk) 
together with tclhttpd.  This is a web server written entirely in tcl. 
It is small, modular, easy to extend, and is plenty fast enough for the 
purpose discussed.  It is commonly used for embedding a webserver such 
as this.  If anyone is interested, they should check Brent Welch's book 
for more information on tclhttpd.

And I believe the entire tcl installation, together with tclhttpd is 
smaller than Apache.

That would kill two birds with one stone.

Richard Coleman
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