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Re: Rafe Colburn's comment: "if you do things the story server way, your pages will be indexed"... because they don't have a ? mark in them, which many engines ignore. IIRC, thebook notes this potential problem explicitly, and suggests several ways to get around it. Notably, the Zope application server, written in Python, and also open-sourced, doesn't have this problem, since the parameters to a Zope method call are just more things-between-slashes. Re: Bryan Oakley's observation about tcl: I don't misunderstand it, I just think it's syntax is ugly. If Ousterhout had to design a new language, just to be embeddable, did he have to make it look like *that*? Not that I'm saying I'd prefer Visual Basic for Routers, mind you, but...
"Broadvision works"...Based on both comments from others (linked to, I see when I go to find the page, from elsewhere here), and personal experience with sites as a user, I'd have to say "for sufficiently small values of works." I find myself in concurrence, from an engineering standpoint, with those who say that Broadvision is not especially well designed to do what they sell it for, particularly in light of its competition.