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-Thread: 103376,508516c114ade8e1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.241.37 with SMTP id wf5mr2579683pbc.4.1328835109248; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:49 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: wr5ni6785pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!jacob-sparre.dk!ada-dk.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada without ada libraries? Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:51:39 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <82mx8tttx7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <120f2efrm73fc$.mi1m9kwbbkes$.dlg@40tude.net> <1o71uiwmoiunb.bkjz8c54rcbl.dlg@40tude.net> <4F33F89E.3070207@obry.net> <4F3401AB.5090307@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1328835105 16061 69.95.181.76 (10 Feb 2012 00:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:51:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Date: 2012-02-09T18:51:39-06:00 List-Id: "Pascal Obry" wrote in message news:4F3401AB.5090307@obry.net... ... > 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.