CLI, CGI

[Terrence Brannon]

How different should a CGI app look from a Command-Line (CLI) app? I was
looking at this framework for separating core computation from a script
interface <http://search.cpan.org/~kerisman/CLI-Framework-0.03/> and
began to wonder how easy/important it would be to have a CGI interface
available as well.

One thing that logic/functional languages do automatically is separate
source of input from computation. It's much harder to interleave
computation and its display in such languages, thereby making the need
for a generic tool to dispatch to CGI or CLI necessary.

Then again, that interspersal is sometimes useful - if you have a huge
file to spit back via HTTP that is computed on the fly, you dont want to
wait for all computation to occur before the output phase...

[Brock]

I had thought about doing Continuity::Adapt::CLI some time ago, but
never did :)

Biggest problem I ran into was that too much code in my sample app
assumed HTML output, and I wasn't up to the task of changing that. Cool
idea though to have a CLI interface to everything... along the same
lines would be a REST-ish interface.

--Brock