Re: Wiki written in Ada?

[Peter.H.M.Brooks@gmail.com]

Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter H M Brooks <Peter.H.M.Brooks@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Peter> I know that there are wikis about Ada, I just wondered (I
>     Peter> can't find a reference) if there's a project to produce a
>     Peter> wiki that's written in Ada.
>
>     Peter> In particular, I'm interested to know if there's a
>     Peter> distributed wiki model being developed in Ada.
>
> I doubt it.
>
> PHP seems to be the language of choice these days for web
> applications.
>
> This is beyond my comprehension.
>
> "Everyone else writes web applications in PHP so it must be good!"
>
> Me thinks the speed and robustness of a compiled language would be
> ideal for any large scale web application. Not an interpreted language
> like PHP.
>
I agree - but it isn't beyond my comprehension! PHP is quick to write,
fairly easy to understand and has intuitive interfaces to the front and
back ends. I'd say that it really was the nature of PHP that brought
about the iea of a wiki in the first place.

A testimony to the ease of writing in PHP is the large number of
separate wiki engines that have been written in it (relative to the
smaller number in things like C and Python).

To my mind, an Open Source Ada wiki would be just as cross-platform
now, much safer to extend and much, much more robust. So it would be a
good project. The overall structure of wikis has become clearer now, so
to draw up a spec. based on the limits of current implementation would
be a useful job all on its own.