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: 103376,2e17f534f2b26df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-11 22:20:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why Ada not used much in commercial server side development References: <90mt3k$aak1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:20:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 976602015 24.20.190.201 (Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:20:15 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:20:15 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2983 Date: 2000-12-12T06:20:15+00:00 List-Id: >rather trivial to make a thin binding to a language. In others, it's >easier to just write in the language - since GUI's probably fall in the As a coauthor of the TriAda paper "CLAW, a High Level, Portable, Ada 95 Binding for Microsoft Windows", I respectfully disagree that for a GUI it's easier to write in C. >community hasn't produced the right libraries for web server because >there aren't many people intrested in using Ada for web serving. There's a simple, basic web server using CLAW, and Pascal Obry has a much bigger one. (Look for "web server" at www.adapower.com). If you want to replace Apache I'd agree the libraries available in Ada leave you some work to do. But not all web servers need all that functionality.