[apluslist] A+ for CGI programming failed

[Lorin Lund]

CGI programming (server side programming for WWW pages) is commonly done in
PERL or PHP.  I've done it with J before so I thought I would try doing 
it in A+.

I couldn't get it to work.  It appears to me that A+ wants to grab a lot 
of memory
at start up.  Apache is usually configured with limits on the memory 
available to
CGI child processes.  It appears that the minimum amount A+ wants to start
with is more than the maximum Apache's default configuration allows.  
(And in
my case the hosting service I rent server space from doesn't allow me to 
change
the Apache configuration.)

If I understand correctly the command line options for starting up A+ 
allow for
increasing the initial memory allocation but not for decreasing it.  Did 
I mis-understand?