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Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays by jarpineh on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @07:08AM (#8756760)
We have some pretty significant matrix processor apps made with APL at the company.

I'd really like to bring this functionality to our web apps, but it seems HTTP interface and external APIs are not available in these implementations. How can you use ELi, or any APL, with a web app?

ELI site is down at the moment, but I read couple of their docs through google cache. There is support of compiling into C, but what about support for C interface? Or HTTP out of the box?

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Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @02:43PM (#8758928)
CGI - or, if you insist, FastCGI - works surprisingly well in 2014.
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Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays by jarpineh on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:32AM (#8771591)
Well, yes. Simple solutions work too. I was burned trying to write sophisticated Python stuff with plain CGI back in the days of Apache 1.3.
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Re:ELI – A System for Programming with Arrays by JoachimSchipper on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:38AM (#8771607)
CGI does need something that can start in at most one geological age, yes. FastCGI is, well, faster, and is pretty simple as long as you don't support multiple concurrent requests to a single backend.
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