Artful Code

One problem from which newLISP suffers is the lack of a really useful library for web-based applications. The official CGI module has serious enough problems to justify an entirely new library. After some thought, I decided moreover that the request and response modules that I designed were neither practical nor sufficient. To that end, I have designed a new, monolithic library to provide the essential functionality required for web programming

Thanks to Andrew Pennebaker for pointing out where the decoder was broken. This update includes a complete rewrite of the JSON decoder. It is now slightly more forgiving and much more accurate. You can download it here or upgrade using nl-install. Submit article

Rails, Django, Spring – application frameworks like these are now ubiquitous in the development of web-based applications. This is part of a trend in many general purpose languages of building toward the web. For these, the application framework is not just a buzzword; it is the abstraction used to build the language up to the [...]

Phorms is a general purpose, easy-to-use HTML forms library. Phorms aims to provide a simple framework for generating complex forms. Submit article

Async provides a simple process pool that allocates a number of worker threads
that may then be utilized collectively without having to deal directly with
threads. Results of jobs sent to the pool are “future” objects, called Asyncs.
Asyncs’ values are then acquired by calling Async.sync, which blocks until the
value has been set by the pool. A supervisor thread monitors the worker threads
and restarts any that terminate abnormally.