From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1150caefb87348f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-05 04:32:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy - WPG (Web Page Generation) scheme Date: 05 Oct 2003 12:30:39 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1065353551 23171 62.49.19.209 (5 Oct 2003 11:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:32:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:258 Date: 2003-10-05T12:30:39+01:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" writes: > I've had an idea (not a blindingly original one) which might be a > way to help promote Ada. Dynamic web content is all the rage these > days; there are dozens of techniques used by millions of people to > achieve it, including but not limited to SSI, ASP, JSP, PHP, CGI, > and many other acronyms. I was thinking of something like this, but in the context of embedded servers. I already have an unpublished Embedded Web Server, in Ada of course, but it only handles static content at the moment. AWS in this context is far too capable! I need to run in -- well, something a little larger than a toaster, a printer perhaps. As for the syntax, I think it would be better to look at a more XML-based syntax, which would have the advantage that you could view the raw, unprocessed pages in any web browser. This is not an original idea, but I forget where else you can find it .. anyway, something like some text -S