Re: Wiki written in Ada?

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Amado-Alves <marius@amado-alves.info> writes:

    >> - 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.

    Marius> - now this is exactly the opposed of my view.

PHP is perceived as being quicker to write.

Maybe for small and very simple projects this might be true.

However, as the code size goes up, productivity goes down, and risk of
security problems goes up. After you factor in time wasted due to
debugging security breaches on a web server and not getting
anywhere... What virtual host did the attacker break into? How did an
attacker run wget on this system? How did the attacker execute the IRC
server after downloading it? Did the attacker do any other damage?

When I was writing PHP code regularly, I was amazed when I couldn't
find a version of a system call that will take a list of parameters as
an array instead of running the shell and having the shell split the
parameters. Arggh! Even Perl supports this. (disclaimer: this was PHP
4.0, to the best of my knowledge, PHP 5.0 was the same).

I think it would be an interesting experiment to rewrite something
like Mediawiki in Ada + AWS.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>