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From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy)
Subject: Re: Ada and CGI programming
Date: 1996/11/07
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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.