Re: New to the NET with Euphoria from a dialup on a 233mhz laptop
There seems to be a vague notion out there
that to use Euphoria for CGI you must get
a Web host to agree to install Euphoria
on their system, or you must get their
permission before you can use it.
In my case, RapidEuphoria.com is hosted
on some Web host's FreeBSD machine. It's not my machine.
I have set up various Euphoria programs for
CGI and for other things. I did not ask my Web host
to install anything, nor did I ask their permission
to run Euphoria. For CGI, I can run interpreted Euphoria programs
using:
#!./exu
on the top line of my program. I can run bound Euphoria
programs, and I can run translated-to-C and compiled
Euphoria programs. All I do for CGI is put the Euphoria program
into my cgi-bin directory, and set the permissions
correctly. It's also convenient to have exu in there.
If a Web host will let you run a C program,
then they shouldn't care if you run a Euphoria program.
After all, the Euphoria interpreter *is* a C program.
Your code is just data for the interpreter.
I've now written Perl programs, C programs and Euphoria
programs for CGI. There's no comparison in terms
of ease of development. With C my Web host doesn't
allow any core files to be dumped, so there are 0 diagnostics
when the C CGI program fails. The same is true with Perl.
With Euphoria, I get a full ex.err file left in cgi-bin, and
it's usually very easy to see what went wrong and to correct it.
I can also turn on profiling and look at the ex.pro file.
I also have a cron job that runs every hour and it's written
in Euphoria. If something goes wrong, it leaves an ex.err
file, and I get the Euphoria error diagnostics that normally
would appear on the screen, e-mailed to me by the system.
When it was written in C, I'd get "core dump" e-mailed to me,
and then there was no core file to be found.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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