yup, that's how we used to do it in 90s, as long as code is compiled it has a fairly decent performances. Downside is that debugging is far harder than with the scripting languages.
Heh, that takes me back! In 1994, I was a high schooler volunteering at a famous west coast science museum (it was either that or work at Taco Bell, thanks dad), and one of my tasks was to make a searchable employee directory...
I don't remember if there was any other option on the server we had, but I had to write that sucker in C! Reading and parsing a .csv file, handling search options, working as a CGI program, what a pain, especially for a dumb high schooler like me!
I don't remember if there was any other option on the server we had, but I had to write that sucker in C! Reading and parsing a .csv file, handling search options, working as a CGI program, what a pain, especially for a dumb high schooler like me!