[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Shark8]

On 9/14/2014 12:31 AM, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip 
Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:
>
> One can, of course, write CGI scripts in Fortran, DCL, SQL using Rdb
> etc.
>

True; and I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that such would be a 
better alternative than the current fad of PHP backend-processing for 
the simple fact of how PHP is terrible. (Seriously, unsuitable for 
anything which is [or controls] currency, control-systems, or security.)

JS isn't much better (though it doesn't happily march on after [most] 
errors); its one-ish saving grace is that it's available in virtually 
all front-ends (browsers, that is) -- this is mitigated by the fact that 
it can [usually] be disabled.

What would be nice is a system where front- and back-end validation 
could be enforced via type-system of the same language (i.e. sharing [at 
least] "type definition" modules). And, as the front-/back-end are just 
special cases of DSA [Distributed Systems Application] it seems that it 
should be possible to do this.