From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d14ef72cb8e7209e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-14 01:03:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: incomplete languages References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:03:02 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.77.153.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1042534982 193.77.153.232 (Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:03:02 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:03:02 MET Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32998 Date: 2003-01-14T10:03:02+01:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>An application server like web server or an SQL database has to accept >>data and code from its clients. It can parse scripts, but it generally >>has no clue about compiled programs and binary objects it receives, >>unless they are described in another language like IDL, ODL, WSDL or >>something. > > A server is a program. It can be as dumb or as smart as you make it. You're right. It could understand your scripts, you could even make him to somehow understand compiled Ada code but never a custom serialized object - without a binding language. And Ada, the language does not provide it, as far as I'm informed. I'm only learning but the closest thing I've seen so far is GnatCom. It would be nice if something like that was built into Ada. Regards, Karel Miklav