Re:Lines of code that changed everything
by pvg on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:02AM
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You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Hah, no, I was the regular kind of correct, you just misread what i wrote - the best kind of read.
As to the other thing, I wasn't arguing about the merits of CGI just that the commenter's recollection was a few years off. A lot of stuff happened in that '94ish-'98ish period as the web went commercial.
Whether lambda is a forgotten CGI, it's a different tangent but I'm not sure I agree. The share-nothing architecture is still (give or take) the norm in HTTP request handling. CGI's attractive feature was implementation-language independence. Lamda's attractive feature is scaling independent of some big unwieldy discrete compute unit (hence 'server-less', you don't scale in servers).
Hah, no, I was the regular kind of correct, you just misread what i wrote - the best kind of read.
As to the other thing, I wasn't arguing about the merits of CGI just that the commenter's recollection was a few years off. A lot of stuff happened in that '94ish-'98ish period as the web went commercial.
Whether lambda is a forgotten CGI, it's a different tangent but I'm not sure I agree. The share-nothing architecture is still (give or take) the norm in HTTP request handling. CGI's attractive feature was implementation-language independence. Lamda's attractive feature is scaling independent of some big unwieldy discrete compute unit (hence 'server-less', you don't scale in servers).