Re: CGI in Ada?

[Jeff Glenn <jeff@iop.com>]

Eric James DeArment wrote:
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> Does anyone know if it's possible to do CGI programming in Ada?
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Sure it is! I wrote an Ada CGI program to display a calendar for either
the current or any month and it highlighted today in bold. My program
generated an HTML table. Your program can either read from the command
line (GET) or from Standard_Input (POST) and then write to
Standard_Output, just like any other CGI language. Of course, you aren't
going to use an interpreted Ada program, like Perl, but a lot of people
use C. Just compile and link your program and get your System
Administrator to put it in the appropriate cgi-bin directory. Voila!

Jeff Glenn

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