Some of our AI students whose only programming language is Pop-11 are
attending an HCI course in which other students are being asked to write
CGI scripts accessible from HTML files, using perl, or C, or C++, etc.
The course tutor does not know Pop-11 so he cannot help them.
I don't have any experience of cgi scripts myself (and don't even really
know what they are, though I've made primitive use of HTML!)
If anyone has experience of using Pop-11 or a similar language (e.g.
Common Lisp, Prolog) for CGI scripts and can provide some tips,
including warnings about possible traps, that I can pass on to these
students I'll be very grateful.
One possible problem is that the pop-11 system requires a shell script
to be sourced to set up a number of environment variables (usually done
in the user's login file), so I assume that the html file will have to
access the shell script which then runs pop-11.
Thanks.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
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