Foil 71 Weak Points in Web Technology

• static, browser-oriented client
• data (information in a narrow sense) repository
• tedious to manage and update (HTML) files on the server side
• difficult to keep most updated data automatically --- modifies usually done by a human using word processor or editing tools
• A plain UNIX file system only supports primitive functions such as open,read/write and close.
  • More powerful operations on files are required for an information system which is supposed to provide information instead of raw data,
  • i.e., low-level data manipulation operators such as those provided in RDBMS: select, insert, update, commit, rollback,etc.
  • Meaningful data needs to be generated on-the-fly from raw data

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