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Nick Roberts wrote:
> Yes, that is what I imagined. I think the most typical scenario is that the
> generated Ada source files would be uploaded to the (web hosting) server
> machine, and then compiled (probably with GNAT) there. The resulting
> executable binaries would be put into the "cgi-bin" directory, so that they
> would be executed (by the web server program) when the corresponding web
> pages were rewuested.

I'm not sure I understand.  Are you saying
that some variant of Ada would be embedded
in a web page, then the browser would send it
back to the server it came from to be compiled
into a CGI program and executed?

-- 
Wes Groleau
When all you have is a perl, everything looks like a string.