Re: Gathering data on user preferences

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>>>
>>>> As a small nit: why JSON and not S-expressions? We're lispies, after
>>>> all ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Only because from a web perspective, middleware to process body contents
>>> consisting of JSON are plentiful, while libraries for s-expressions are
>>> not.  
>>
>> But you would be processing them in Emacs which is very good at processing both
>> text and s-expressions? :)
>
> Why would you be processing them in Emacs? If you had a web service, the
> last thing you would have is Emacs sitting behind the web server. You
> would use something better suited which would process the data from the
> POST request which then stores the data in some format. You might have
> Emacs be able to query that data to get reports. 

Just save a byte stream, and then process in Emacs?