New library: cl-php
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:43 pm
I've been promising this for ages, so it's time I got off my butt and published it. Partly, I've been stung into action by Gary King's post: http://metabang.com/unclogit/?p=389
The idea is to abstract away some of the lower-level stuff, so that writing web applications in Common Lisp can become as easy as writing them in PHP, which is currently a fair and valid criticism.
So far, it's been driven entirely by what's needed by the sites I've been writing, so it's only guaranteed to work on SBCL on Linux. There's an awful lot of error-resistance that needs adding, and it's currently totally without documentation or examples, but it's a start and you're welcome to play with it if you wish. It's under the LLGPL; while I'm willing to listen to arguments as to why that should be changed to, say, the BSD license, I'm very keen on the idea of the code staying free.
It's available from: http://www.electronic-quill.net/lisp/
The idea is to abstract away some of the lower-level stuff, so that writing web applications in Common Lisp can become as easy as writing them in PHP, which is currently a fair and valid criticism.
So far, it's been driven entirely by what's needed by the sites I've been writing, so it's only guaranteed to work on SBCL on Linux. There's an awful lot of error-resistance that needs adding, and it's currently totally without documentation or examples, but it's a start and you're welcome to play with it if you wish. It's under the LLGPL; while I'm willing to listen to arguments as to why that should be changed to, say, the BSD license, I'm very keen on the idea of the code staying free.
It's available from: http://www.electronic-quill.net/lisp/