Dear Perl Monks,

I am in trouble. As a non-believer, I probably shouldn't seek shelter in your monastery. But you monks are wise and you listen. So please, forgive me.

I am running a long-term research project in logic and I am busy building a library of methods and algorithms to solve a couple of complex problems. To keep things intelligible for both the user and myself, I translated all that into managable modules of a concrete language. I have chosen Standard ML (SML), because I really think and talk functional, and its interface design (made of "signatures", "structures" and "functors") suits my needs and the challenges of large projects in general.
Furthermore, I intend to make these modules easily usable via web applications and HTML formulas. The user should be enabled to input some problem in a simple syntax, and a solution should be provided online, computed on the server side, so that there is no need to install anything. I realized a similar approach years ago by means of a Java applet. But I find Java not a suitable language for the overall project and too far off my own way of thinking.
I studied PHP to implement the GUI side of my project, but I had to realize, that the host provider of my homepage disabled the PHP "system" function, which would bridge the gap between HTML/PHP and the SML executables. I heard about CGI scripts and started to study Perl. Somehow, I did fall in love with the ugly camel, especially for its universal power and its ability to explain two marvels from a new perspective: GNU/Linux and the internet. Although I don't believe in Perl as a natural language for me, I really enjoy learning it and I intent to continue studying.
However, now that I understand enough CGI and Perl to implement the things I need, my host provider tells me, that they wouldn't implement the necessary SML compiler/interpreter for me and that I don't have access to the shell to do all that myself.
I am desperate.

Is there in the jungle of host providers a good and suitable one for me, at all?
Or, would it be possible for me to run my own server, although I only have a DSL connection without a permanent IP?
Or, is there a monk in this monastery with an own machine, some 25 MB or so to spare and who is unholy enough to take some money for the efforts?
Or, is it possible to realize my idea any other way?

Thank you for your patience.

In reply to The meaning of life, Perl and SML by noknok

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