Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Nick Roberts <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
: I think one of the big attractions of schemes like ASP, JSP, and PHP (to
: name but three) is that to use them you merely have to embed a few special
: directives into an otherwise ordinary HTML file, and often the directives
: are very simple.

It might be popular, it might even let you think of clever tricks,
but is it technically attractive? It does, in fact, reintroduce
the lack of model-view-controller separation. It is bound to
create a somewhat nightmarish code-in-view-mess.

As soon as there is more than one web-page involved in the same
"web application", maintenance and understandability can degrade so
fast that I am tempted to say, in O(exp(n)).

Please, don't.

There are much more mature, better, and cleaner methods of
creating dynamic views, and AWS has one of them ready for production
use.
(Addition: I have been and am doing this sort of "web visualization" for
years, as soon as you allow a conditional or assignment in a template, you
start burning money.)


-- Georg