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Subject: Re: incomplete languages
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> An application server like web server or an SQL database has to accept
> data and code from its clients. It can parse scripts, but it generally
> has no clue about compiled programs and binary objects it receives,
> unless they are described in another language like IDL, ODL, WSDL or
> something.
  A server is a program.  It can be as dumb or as smart as you make it.