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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:16:46 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2003-10-05, Nick Roberts <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes, that is what I imagined. I think the most typical scenario is that the
> generated Ada source files would be uploaded to the (web hosting) server
> machine, and then compiled (probably with GNAT) there. The resulting
> executable binaries would be put into the "cgi-bin" directory, so that they
> would be executed (by the web server program) when the corresponding web
> pages were rewuested.

What would be the benifit? How dows it help making web pages?

> Yes, I was thinking of generating standard (in inverted commas) CGI
> programs, for use with web server programs that support CGI (including
> Apache). But not like PHP, which is interpreted. The programs generated
> would be compiled to be native code binary programs.

Why. Sounds like a lot of resources are wasted if you have to run a
program for every page you want to have.

Preben