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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b4b317e40c35901 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp2-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <1157938285.427306.42330@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1157914506.873537.289680@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1157938285.427306.42330@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marius Amado-Alves Subject: Re: Wiki written in Ada? Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:48:51 +0100 To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - zaphen.serversonline.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - ada-france.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - amado-alves.info X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.17.134 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Sep 2006 11:50:35 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1158313835 nnrp2-1.free.fr 20847 88.191.14.223:35262 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6591 Date: 2006-09-15T11:50:35+02:00 >> Me thinks the speed and robustness of a compiled language would be >> ideal for any large scale web application. Not an interpreted >> language >> like PHP. > I agree I also agree so far > - but it isn't beyond my comprehension! PHP is quick to write, > fairly easy to understand and has intuitive interfaces to the front > and > back ends. - now this is exactly the opposed of my view. > I'd say that it really was the nature of PHP that brought > about the iea of a wiki in the first place. Not at all in my view. Not for Casbah [1]. And I'd be surprised if Ward's Wiki [2], arguably the first Wiki ever, was written in PHP or the like (I think it was in C). > A testimony to the ease of writing in PHP is the large number of > separate wiki engines that have been written in it (relative to the > smaller number in things like C and Python). These numbers may be true, but to me they do not testify to the easiness of PHP. Some years ago (when PHP was in version 3 IIRC) I considered using it for web systems, since yes it seemed everybody was do it. I found the documentation, and the snippets I saw, very hardly understandable. So much for easiness. I used Ada. (Actually I wanted to use MAWL, but I was not able to install the compiler.) So it seems views vary greatly. Or one of us is living in another world :-) [1] BTW don't look at my Casbah expecting excellent Ada code. It was one of the first works in Ada by a guy coming from C. [2] The Portland Patterns Repository at c2.com; incidentally, it includes pages on Wiki History, and lists Wiki systems by language-- alphabetically, so guess which is the first entry :-)