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Lisp Web Server From Scratch using Hunchentoot and Nginx

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Common Lisp may be worth another look. I've been loving Clojure for the past few months but this looks promising.

Quicklisp looks especially nice, hopefully solving the packaging and dependency situation.

A tutorial using Quicklisp :) its so nice to see a flurry of activity around it. It seems it was the shot in the arm much needed for CL.

A hot new book didn't hurt, either...

I got this mail from No Starch Press:

Hey There Lisp Lover, We're sending you this email because you ordered Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp. We just wanted to let you know that because we received so many orders from so many awesome people in such a short amount of time, we ran out of our supply of books here in the office. [...]

Congrats, drcode!

Good for them and Conrad. No Starch press always impresses me with their general geekiness and awesomeness. I've never actually read a bad book from them. If someone is interested in Linux I heartily recommend their 'How Linux Works' title for an internals tutorial.

That probably explains why Amazon was saying that I would probably not receive it until December. On the plus side, they must've gotten more in, because I just received my copy on Tuesday of this week.

thanks!

  hunchentoot_stop ()
  {
      echo -n "Stopping Lisp Hunchentoot Server process..."
      echo ""

      # 6200 is the port to signal end of lisp process
      (telnet 127.0.0.1 6200 &) > /dev/null
      (sleep 7)
  }

Surely, there must be a better alternative for shutting down the process. Telnet? Really?

Any number of triggers would work. :) You can always modify his code with an approach that is more to your liking.

Looks cool. May give it a spin.

Somewhat related... I've been reading HN long enough to know that HN itself is run on some kind of Lisp (or is it Arc?). Is there an old post to HN that outlines the configuration of the software used?

Can you really saying that this is from "scratch" when using substantial prebuilt components? Isn't that like saying, "cookies from scratch using Betty Crocker cookie dough"?

So you start building it with nano-machines? or FPGA at least?

You know what the parent is trying to say is "from scratch like code your own."

Note, I said "substantial prebuilt". If you're using eggs and butter, sure. If you're using a Lisp compiler and a standard library, sure.

But Hunchentoot is a friggin web server.

I thought the same the first time I read it, but this is about a web server, not an http server, i.e. we're talking about the host, not the program receiving and sending data streams.

This is way too much work just to get a web server set up.

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