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  • Setting Up a newLISP Webserver

    How fast can you get on the web? With newLISP it’s about as fast as typing:

    newlisp -http -d 8080 -w /usr/home/www/httpdocs &

    How fast can you create a backdoor with newLISP?

    newlisp -p 1234 &

    If you telnet into port 1234 in localhost, you’ll see something that looks like this:

    Trying 127.0.0.1…
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is ‘^]’.
    newLISP v.10.0.0 on OSX IPv4 UTF-8.

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    This opens up a lot of possibilities for distributed computing.

    For example, you can set up a newLISP server that’s ready to respond to a newLISP client with this command:

    newlisp -c -d 1234

    Your newLISP client can have code that sends a computing problem to be solved to the server:

    (net-eval “localhost” 1234 “(+ 3 4)” 1000)

    Or let’s say you had a farm of newLISP servers:

    #!/usr/bin/newlisp

    (set ‘result (net-eval ‘(
    (“192.168.1.100” 4711 {(+ 3 4)})
    (“192.168.1.101” 4711 {(+ 5 6)})
    (“192.168.1.102” 4711 {(+ 7 8)})
    (“192.168.1.103” 4711 {(+ 9 10)})
    (“192.168.1.104” 4711 {(+ 11 12)})
    ) 1000))

    (println “result: ” result)

    (exit)

    If the above example reminds you of Gearman, you get +12 points.