Ada and CGI programming

Ada and CGI programming

[Neil O'Brien]

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
>
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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,


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Re: Ada and CGI programming

[Stephen M O'Shaughnessy]

In article <01bbcbe5.d26f9d20$fc899dc0@fielding.east.aonix.com>, 
obrien@east.thomsoft.com says...
>
>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:

***snip***

>>  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.

***snip***

Please post. I would be very interested to see this discussion.

Re: Ada and CGI programming

[Robert Munck]

 Tucker Taft (stt@DSD.CAMB.INMET.COM) (or maybe Robert Eachus) said:
> ... 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. 

I'm now writing web apps in PL/SQL for the Oracle WebServer.  It may
surprise many of you to learn that PL/SQL is based on Ada (+ SQL),
though it's drastically cut down.  The C++ programmers in cubicles
around mine are amazed at the implementation speed, readability,
modifiability, etc. of the code.  Overloading just blows them away.

PL/SQL code is compiled into a p-code that is stored in the database
that you're accessing, and executed by the DB server.  Wouldn't it
be wonderful if Oracle could upgrade their p-code interpreter to
handle java bytecodes and the Ada95 compilers became the 
front-end of choice because of all the existing PL/SQL?

Btw, I've written a package that supports generating HTML dynamically
using data retrieved from the DB.  It's in PL/SQL, but could be Ada
with a few minor changes.  Anyone interested?  I "wrote" the
package by processing the SGML DTD for HTML3.2, so it supports
the entirety of the most current HTML definition.  Tables, frames,
the whole bit.

Bob Munck