merits of Lisp vs Python

[John J. Lee]

Jorge Godoy <jgodoy at gmail.com> writes:

> jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
> 
> > John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
> >
> >> John J. Lee wrote:
> >> > "Graham Dumpleton" <Graham.Dumpleton at gmail.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >>On Mar 11, 12:31 pm, j... at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Is it possible to ask mod_python to start separate processes to serve
> >> > requests, rather than "separate" interpreters?  We couldn't see a way.
> >> 
> >>     That's what CGI does.
> >
> > I meant long running processes, as I hoped was obvious from context...
> 
> Maybe FastCGI should help, then.  It can run "forever" after a request has
> finished so it is suitable for long running processes. 

Yes, we've used FastCGI too.  My question was specifically about
mod_python.


John