[PRL] Bourne Shell Server Pages

[Mitchell Wand]

My son Josh sent me this one.  Some good quotes:


> Why should shell languages be the only ones left out of the
> ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages fad?
>

> The basic idea behind all server page technologies is this: rather than
> writing code that generates an HTML document on-the-fly by writing it out as
> a series of *print* statements, you start with a "skeleton" HTML document
> and embed the code right inside it. Voila! Instead of having a tangled,
> unreadable, unmaintainable mess of HTML embedded in source code, you have a
> tangled, unreadable, unmaintainable mess of source code embedded in HTML.
>
> ...
>
> How does the Bourne Shell Server Pages technology fit into the bigger
> picture of Web Services? It's a legitimate question. For that matter, what
> the hell *are* "Web Services" anyway?
>
> I've read quite a bit about Web Services, and have had some in-depth,
> first-hand experience with the technologies that form its underpinnings. To
> the best of my knowledge, here is an accurate definition of the term:
>
>  *Web Services*  *noun*  A software development meme that espouses the
> notion of tying together disparate software components via a crude,
> non-typesafe, remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism that consists of sending
> and receiving data encoded in an excessively verbose, plaintext format (XML)
> over a largely inelegant, stateless file transfer protocol (HTTP).
>
>

http://hyperrealm.com/wtfd00d/shsp/

Josh says also not to miss the reddit comments, at
http://programming.reddit.com/info/61531/comments/ .
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