[Israel.pm] Talk: A natural flow for web apps

[Yuval Yaari]

Asking the user a question ends the apache request (when you print your 
HTML with your form).
Receiving the form information is another apache request...
In the terminal based prompt, you script waits for the user's input - in 
the web, you must have it in 2 requests (which ruins the programmers' 
lives :)).

Writing web applications with prompt() functions should be really great 
- I hope Ran would elaborate more in his lecture...

  --Yuval


Jason Elbaum wrote:

> For those of us with no experience writing interactive perl scripts 
> for the web, could you summarize why this is a problem (flow-wise)? 
> What is it about the terminal-based prompt:
>
>   sub prompt {
>      my $message = shift;
>      print "$message\n";
>      chomp(my $out = <>);
>      return $out;
>   }
>
> that doesn't translate to web servers?