Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-10-04, Stephane Richard <stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote:

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> Hey that sounds like it could make sense to me. Would we need to compile it
> into an ada program after?  or perhaps all we need is an ada interpreter to
> perform the actions and assign variables and such?  Ada can already compile
> to Java bytecode maybe there's a way to use that for our purposes? 

To use Java is not nice. The reason is that the page will take ages to
load because you have to fire up the JVM which also consumes a lot of
memory. If anything this must be server side engine like PHP. 

> Or are you talking about using Ada much like PHP as in make it usable with
> Appache or other server technologies like that one and not confine it to Ada
> Web Server usage only?

Don't know, but to get it widespread I think one would have to.