How can I do web programming with Lisp or Scheme?

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Castro picture Castro · Aug 14, 2009 · Viewed 23k times · Source

I usually write web apps in PHP, Ruby or Perl. I am starting the study of Scheme and I want to try some web project with this language. But I can't find what is the best environment for this.

I am looking for the following features:

  • A simple way of get the request parameters (something like: get-get #key, get-post #key, get-cookie #key).
  • Mysql access.
  • HTML Form generators, processing, validators, etc.
  • Helpers for filter user input data (something like htmlentities, escape variables for put in queries, etc).
  • FLOSS.
  • And GNU/Linux friendly.

So, thanks in advance to all replies.

Answer

Eli Barzilay picture Eli Barzilay · Aug 14, 2009

Racket has everything that you need. See the Racket web server tutorial and then the documentation. The web server has been around for a while, and it has a lot of features. Probably the only thing that is not included is a mysql interface, but that exists as a package on PLaneT (Racket package distribution tool).

UPDATE: Racket now comes with DB support, works with several DBs including mysql.

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