Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> On 11/8/10 10:36 PM, spir wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:17:48 -0500
>> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>  wrote:
>>
>>>> People at Facebook told me that the adoption of D inside the company 
>>>> might
>>>> be helped if they could simply write<?d ... ?>  to insert D code into a
>>>> page. I'm not sure how difficult such a plugin would be to implement.
>>>
>>> I'm very suprised by that. That's become considered very bad style by 
>>> most
>>> of the [professional] web dev world quite awhile ago, and for very good
>>> reason. Rails-, django- and even ASP.NET-style "pass variables into an 
>>> HTML
>>> template" approaches have proven to be...well...frankly, much less 
>>> shitty.
>>
>> For sure. See "Enforcing Strict Model-View Separation in Template 
>> Engines" http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/mvc.templates.pdf
>
> Love that work.
>

Ahh, I see that's written by the ANTLR/StringTemplate guy. I never read that 
paper, but the docs for his StringTemplate were a big part of what convinced 
me that template engines shouldn't try to be full-fledged imperative 
programming languages.