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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What are some of the uses for Ada?
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:30:47 +0200
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:21:07 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> But Ada is not always my first choice for solving a problem.  When I
> solve system administration tasks, I often use Bash.

Huh, what about bash arrays. Aren't they just great? What about a variable
modified in the loop dealing with a pipe? Nice thing, lot of fun.
Processing double quotation marks in the bodies of strings. Just delicious!

If there were Ada interpreter for Linux I would never use bash. But even
without it, each time I write a script I must later admit, that it would be
better and *quicker* to use a full-blown Ada program instead.

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