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Subject: Re: Web Development Using Ada?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:11:05 +0200
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Le Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:49:17 +0200, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> a =
 =

=C3=A9crit:

> On Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:49:11 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>> I think Ada could offer something there:
>>
>> 1. Direct portability without virtualization;
>> 2. Control over the resources. In Ada the server can be designed in a=
  =

>> way
>> that it would require minimal or no dynamic memory allocation;
>> 3. Much better performance when Ada's approach to tasking is used;
>> 4. Less debugging.
>
> Other positives (note that my stint in professional web-programming wa=
s  =

> using PHP):
>
> 5. Generics -- I had to write the same function again and again  =

> (slightly different because of the 'types' coming in) when using PHP; =
 =

> that system would have been a lot nicer and more stable if PHP had  =

> generics.

I won't go so far: it would have been a lot nicer if it had types and  =

signatures and real modules and static consistency check for all of this=
.  =

It has none of these basic things (there is not even a real kind of  =

phplint to help).


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity