1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth

Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by monocasa on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @03:42PM (#19147302)

Or Cobol on Wheelchair

https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair

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Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by arethuza on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:11PM (#19148130)

I once encountered an actual real live business application that included a web server written in VB6....

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Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by giancarlostoro on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:17AM (#19152462)

The only sucky things about VB6 was threading wasn't a regular language feature. You could get to it through the WinAPI but that's not organic enough for most VB programmers. One thing I do miss about VB6 is that you didn't need an entire runtime to build a GUI.

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Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by PopsiclePete on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:36AM (#19153809)

I wouldn’t say that was the only thing...error handling was a mess and I don’t even want to remember what I had to do to make a hash table - there were definitely low level calls to RtlMoveMemory and such.

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Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:27AM (#19151675)

I can see how that would go; I mean "how to serve static files" is one of the first things that you can learn when doing e.g. NodeJS.

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Re:1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth by arethuza on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:30AM (#19151691)

I never did find out the real reason - I suspect (as it was a relatively small business that had been acquired) that it was because they were too cheap to pay for a server edition of Windows.

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