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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