From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b4d479ff5a818a8c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Neil O'Brien Subject: Ada and CGI programming Date: 1996/11/06 Message-ID: <01bbcbe5.d26f9d20$fc899dc0@fielding.east.aonix.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194920230 sender: news@thomsoft.com organization: Thomson Software Products, Burlington, MA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi, this is a call for Robert Eachus, can you contact me please. I had an email discussion with someone from comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi regards doing this, a colleague was aware of this and passed me the following: > > Tucker Taft (stt@DSD.CAMB.INMET.COM) said: > > > Admittedly, if there is no mandate for a particular technology > > in a particular domain, then a business case must be made for the > > use of one technology over another. I certainly expect and hope > > that Ada will continue to be used in many domains that don't relate > > even vaguely to war-fighting. That doesn't necessarily mean it should > > be mandated in all such domains. > > One that has pleasantly surprised me recently is the use of Ada for >cgi scripts. Much, much easier on the head than /bin/sh or perl5, and >the code is the same size or smaller. The "neat trick" that makes it >all work is to get and use the uncgi tool to unpack the href into >environment variables. > > > > Robert I. Eachus > >with Standard_Disclaimer; >use Standard_Disclaimer; >function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is... I think you would be interested in the discussion I had, I looked through all the CLA messages available to me but couldn't see any from you. Can you email me (or call), the discussion probably belongs here eventually but I think it needs a bit of investigation first. thanks, -- ========================================================= Neil O'Brien obrien@east.thomsoft.com Customer Support (617) 221 7320 Thomson Software Products subscribe intel-objectada (or unix-objectada) send your email to majordomo@east.thomsoft.com with a blank subject line and the subscribe command in the body "I went back to my hotel and intended to watch Tottenham - but I fell asleep" - Arsene Wenger