Although they are meant to be complimentary, each may be used independently of the other. And, alas, while Le Sursis is indeed a reprieve from Perl, it is not a solution. If one has to work on a CGI script with others, it will almost certainly be necessary to use a language other than Lisp. M. Sartre was an amazing author and philosopher, and I would encourage everyone to read his work. The remainder of this manual will consider only the software.
All examples given here use the .lsp extension for lisp files.
In most situations, you would want to compile the lisp files from this distribution. The sursis package provides Le Sursis' interface to CGI queries. The next most useful function exported is probably format-query . In fact, it was this behavior of the majority of my cgi scripts that lead me to write this package. For more detail, see The sursis Package .