Re: ada without ada libraries?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Pascal Obry" <pascal@obry.net> wrote in message 
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> I've started AWS at a time where people where only and exclusively using
> Apache. At this time Ada was not really Web oriented and I was probably
> the only fool trying to use it in this context (many people told me so
> at this time). CGI, and Java WERE the big players. Yet, I thought it was
> better coming with an Ada solution. Nice, clean, portable. I would
> probably think alike if I come across a new challenge.

Well, you surely weren't the only one. Tom Moran had pushed Claw into web 
interfaces fairly early on, and we built quite a number of Claw libraries 
that do basic interfacing with the web. Tom's Finder program became the 
basis for the AdaIC search engine (used for local search in the Ada 
Standard, theAda-Auth web site, and a number of other documents and sites) 
and the SmplSrvr web server (which became the basis of the web server that 
hosts Ada-Auth.Org and RRSoftware.com today, and previously hosted AdaIC.com 
before that responsibility was taken over by AdaCore).

I also seriously considered a "WebClaw", a subset of Claw that used a 
web-based HTML interface. I did some experiments and was not initially happy 
with the interface. By then, AWS was available and promoted, and I abandoned 
the project - not because I couldn't do it better, but because I couldn't be 
it enough better to justify the extensive work needed. (That is to say, AWS 
is "good enough" and I didn't think WebClaw would bring enough additional to 
the table to make it worth the years of development needed.)

                                                 Randy.