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Fourth Annual USENIX Tcl/Tk Workshop, 1996
Programming the Internet from the Server-Side with Tcl and
Audience1
Adam Sah, Kevin Brown, and Eric Brewer
Inktomi Corporation
Berkeley, California
Abstract
Although innovations on the World Wide Web are currently dominated by
exciting client-side products (ie. Java, VRML, Netscape Plug-Ins,
etc.), we believe that there is an equally rich server-side
programming opportunity. In this paper, we argue that server- side
programming will remain an important part of client-server Web
applications. We then argue that server language(s) and client-side
languages have very different requirements, and don't have to be the
same language.
As a running example, we present Audience1(tm), an end-to-end
publishing tool for the World Wide Web, which uses Tcl and MTtcl, a
multi-threaded Tcl extension library. Currently, Audience1 is
providing web service and mass customization features for the HotBot
search engine (a joint venture between Inktomi and HotWired). HotBot
can be found at https://www.hotbot.com.
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