Re: Ada and Internet stuff

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3B86A962.33CFA1A8@san.rr.com>, Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:
> I'm wondering how many people use Ada for Internet things. Do people
> write servers in Ada, or clients, or libraries? I note a lack of things
> like XML, MIME, base64, etc on AdaPower. If I started building such
> libraries, would anyone care? Would anyone use them?  Just
> wondering...   

Yes, people care.  There is an Ada Web Server, intended not for general
purpose web server purposes but rather to allow your program to serve
its own pages (such as for remote control purposes).

> (FWIW, I'm good at internet stuff, and a novice at Ada, but I think I'd
> like Ada a lot.)

Another data point is the degree to which people in this newsgroup
fume when their web browser crashes, since they know it is quite
likely to be a buffer overflow resulting from poor programming
practices.  Of course writing something in Ada does not automatically
eliminate bugs, but it does help.