Apache "mod_d" needs C to instantiate D interpreter?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-11-10 00:57, Eric Poggel wrote:
> On 11/9/2010 12:17 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:ibaepi$vfh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> People at Facebook told me that the adoption of D inside the company
>>> might
>>> be helped if they could simply write<?d ... ?> to insert D code into a
>>> page. I'm not sure how difficult such a plugin would be to implement.
>>
>> I'm very suprised by that. That's become considered very bad style by
>> most
>> of the [professional] web dev world quite awhile ago, and for very good
>> reason. Rails-, django- and even ASP.NET-style "pass variables into an
>> HTML
>> template" approaches have proven to be...well...frankly, much less
>> shitty.
>>
>>
>
> I've always felt the opposite way. It's been a while since I've worked
> with Asp.net controls, but I remember something like this:
>
> <ul id="List"></ul>
> .....
> // Later, in C#
> for (int i=0; i<10; i++)
> List.innerHtml += "<li>" + sanitize(someArray[i]) + "</li>"
>
> While php would do something like:
>
> <ul id="List">
> <?php foreach($someArray as $item):?>
> <li><?=sanitize($item)?></li>
> <?php endforeach?>
> </ul>

I would as well. I don't think it's wrong adding a some code to the 
views to help write HTML, the example above is a perfect example.

> Granted, C# is a much nicer language than php, and when in php, I always
> separate model and controller logic from the html view, but the
> "immediate mode" of php embedding helps me avoid the awkwardness of
> building html through string concatenations in another file. I get to
> see the html structure exactly as it is.
>
> This is where people usually jump in and suggest a templating system,
> but I think it's silly to invent a second language when the first is
> more than up to the task. I always find myself thinking: I know how to
> do this in php or java, but how do I do this in the templating language?
>
> I welcome counter-arguments. Maybe I can be enlightened?

Isn't a PHP kind of a template system? It's created for web development 
and to be able to mix HTML and PHP out of the box.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg