Hi,
The requirements you state here are rather tough.
It is not terribly difficult to write an Apache module in C++. The key
data structures need to be declared with external "C" linkage, and the
Apache API relies heavily on void pointers, for which the C++ compiler
requires casts. Of course C++ was designed to be compatible with C
from the point of view of the linker and the ABI; I cannot think of
any functional languages (like R for statistics) that have such a
C-compatible design.
The most powerful non-C interface into Apache is mod_perl. Perl code is
interpreted to byte code and can run inside the web server at near-
native
speed, mod_perl exposes Apache's complete C API, and yet Perl is also a
very flexible high-level language that invites many different
programming
styles.
JD
On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Joachim Zobel wrote:
Hi.
Are there any compiled (preferrably functional) languages that be used
to write apache modules? Such a language should be sufficiently
efficient and it should not require a mod_<language>.
Any hints are appreciated.
Joachim
