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Hi, I noticed this in the todo list, and was wondering if anyone is working on it. It looks like something I might be capable of doing (I've already done this with Tcl), and I hope have a go at it within the next couple of weeks. It's something I'll do for fun, and to become a bit more familiar with guile, but I think there are several reasons why it will probably never see much use: People want nice, simple languages for web scripting. At *most* they want something like Perl or Python.. even Tcl is good enough in most cases. A lot of the people doing web scripting are not particularly programmers, per se, nor do they need to be. Languages like PHP work great for these people - it's easy to pick up the basics and do something useful. Surely, there are those that may wish to do more complex things in this realm of programming, however, I think there are other things that may be the 'limiting factor' rather than the programming language - to wit, the realities of how an http server functions (persistent connections are a bit of a hack), SQL (ick), and the speed and time constraints with which an implementation must work. That said, it should be a reletively interesting project, and I hope to provide something that at least a few people will find useful, and learn something in the process:-> Thanks for your time, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org