Aside from the fact it's an obvious troll... I had that basic idea when web app frameworks starting becoming popular. So I implemented a web framework which to

Aside from the fact it's an obvious troll... I had that basic idea when web app frameworks starting becoming popular. So I implemented a web framework which took a 'description' of the app written in perl, and generated C++ which compiled into a single exe file which served the app with a built in http server. Small bits of business logic were written in C++, but basically it was done by the perl. All templates, internationalisation, everything, compiled down to a few database queries, string concatenations and the odd if statement. I then build a couple of production sites in this, one on my own, and another with a few other developers. Conclusions from this: 1) It's really really fast and efficient, and the single exe model for deployment is lovely. 2) It's a pain to implement such a framework, and a pain to use it. 3) I'm never using perl again. 4) Life's too short for this kind of game. The code is here: http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/6 http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/6