> C isn't a terrible language to write a web framework in. Hey, I wrote my first CGI script in Pascal, so I know it's not impossible. And nothing I've written

> C isn't a terrible language to write a web framework in. Hey, I wrote my first CGI script in Pascal, so I know it's not impossible. And nothing I've written since then has been so fast. ;-) But so much stuff like GZIP delivery, POST parsing, cookies, etc will require you to write enormous functions, with countless "gotcha" edge cases, just to reinvent the wheel. Using it in production for anything complex (like a web store selling digital downloads), is just nuts.