Building Server-Side Web Language Processors

Once again the author of this article was our professor Ariel Ortiz, in his article "Building Server-Side Web Language Processors", in first hand it tries to explain if it's possible to build a language processor in a web environment, and the huge importance of adapting our work to a web interface and some other important areas to be considered when you're trying to do this, mainly because it can get tricky.

As I stated above it can get very tricky, so developing a language processor for the web has a lot of challenges involved that you are not aware of. One example that it's declared in the article it's the handling of the HTTP, adaptability, security, etc. However, there are many tools and techniques to prevent this huge issue. 

The strategies settled for our professor are the next ones:

* Program your own server
* Build everything over web technology already used and known
* Use the Common Gateway Interface

These mentioned just a few moments ago help us to not get in trouble that much when developing our language processor. As we can see it's possible to incorporate successfully a web-based approach into courses, this topic it's really of my interest so reading this article was helpful for my knowledge improvement and understanding of the same.

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