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Re:Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit by EdiX on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:26AM (#2469902)
> Write a web app in C? ;)

Probably not very fun, with all the string manipulation involved.

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Re:Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit by JoachimSchipper on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:13AM (#2470170)
C is pretty flexible. Just write a create_pool() function, an sprintf()-workalike that allocates memory from the current pool, and a destroy_pool() function that deallocates the current pool. Use one pool per request. It's not Perl, but I'd imagine it's not that inconvenient - and very fast.

(See also: raphters, which was featured on HN not so long ago.)

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