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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:10:26 -0400
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Date: 2001-08-27T19:10:26-04:00

I don't see either as too small or too large.

David Botton

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
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> >I'm wondering how many people use Ada for Internet things. Do people
> >write servers in Ada, or clients, or libraries? I note a lack of things
> >like XML, MIME, base64, etc on AdaPower. If I started building such
> >libraries, would anyone care? Would anyone use them?  Just
> >wondering...
>   I do.  But a base64 translator, for instance, seems too simple for
> www.adapower.com, and at the other end a rather specific web
> crawler/scanner seems too specialized.  But perhaps I misjudge.