* Ada and CGI programming
@ 1996-11-06 0:00 Neil O'Brien
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck
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From: Neil O'Brien @ 1996-11-06 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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,
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* Re: Ada and CGI programming
1996-11-06 0:00 Ada and CGI programming Neil O'Brien
@ 1996-11-07 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck
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From: Stephen M O'Shaughnessy @ 1996-11-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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* Re: Ada and CGI programming
1996-11-06 0:00 Ada and CGI programming Neil O'Brien
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
@ 1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Robert Munck @ 1996-11-08 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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