Re: Ada and CGI programming

[pp000166@interramp.com (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