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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: web scripting
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:53:24 +0200
Date: 2003-05-17T16:53:24+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2sxa.13189$8g5.205109@news2.e.nsc.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: scmacvc5m784kkaeqtt876qr7n26tf4je8@4ax.com

Robert Stuckart  wrote:
> Is there anything available that would allow the use of Ada for
> server-side scripting?  It is extremely easy to write simple scripts
> in PHP, but it doesn't scale well at all.

What you want is a web server which loads "scripts" as dynamic link
libraries. The point is of course that you should be able to unload the
lilbrary once the work is done.

> I know this is naive, but I have to ask.  Could scripting be the
> killer application for Ada?

It could be,  if you don't forget that it is a scripting language and not
Ada. e.g. you want strings like Borland Pascal does them, not like Ada95.

Ideally it should look like a cross between vbscript and Ada.


greetings,






  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-17 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-16 21:42 web scripting Robert Stuckart
2003-05-17  1:22 ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-05-17  1:37   ` Robert Stuckart
2003-05-17  4:02     ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-05-17  7:18 ` Pascal Obry
2003-05-17 14:53 ` Tarjei T. Jensen [this message]
2003-05-17 17:19   ` tmoran
2003-05-17 18:37     ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2003-05-17 19:06       ` Pascal Obry
2003-05-18  8:08         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2003-05-18  9:03           ` Pascal Obry
2003-05-19 15:23       ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-05-22 10:11         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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