Subj : Re: Pascal
To : Andrew Ball
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Mar 10 2005 08:53 pm
-=> Quoting Andrew Ball to Mark Lewis <=-
ML> CGI is nothing more than stdin and stdout... basically
> plain old text mode...
AB> For CGI to work I will also need to be able to read two environment
AB> variables and then I'll need to write a simple handler for the way
AB> that certain characters are encoded in CGI requests.
ML> using external libraries?? do you mean using external
Enviro variables are readable by pascal and easy to
access. You can even fake the CGI requests with
some imagination.
> dlls located in dllhell?
AB> I think DLLs are an MS Windows thing. I meant using platform
AB> -independent libraries such as curses and perhaps a graphics
AB> /GUI toolkit.
Delphi does DLLs fine and even to some privitive level
Turbovision of pascal did as well. Back in the old days.
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