[Info-vax] The Future of Programming Languages and Web browsers

[Arne Vajhøj]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> More than 25 years ago, someone at my employer's company made a
> decision that programs written by technical people would be written in
> VAX-BASIC. I thought this was a big mistake and wanted to use COBOL or
> Pascal. Since then, we've progressed to Alpha-BASIC and HP-C but I
> still find myself working in an oppressive environment (but can't
> complain too much because I'm still working)
> 
> Okay so I've had to roll my own CGI routines in order to allow Apache
> to call my Alpha-BASIC programs directly. No big deal but a finished
> callable library from HP might allow me to sleep a little deeper.

CGI is a bit old/inefficient.

You could write an Apache module.

Arne