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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fa2cc518ef3b992c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lionel Draghi Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Date: 2000/02/05 Message-ID: <389BE5F9.D8032107@free.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 581852125 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <389207CC.C16D80E8@averstar.com> <38971028.BB16D8A2@earthlink.net> <3899F757.FAE131B3@free.fr> <389B5C01.D484CF2@raytheon.com> X-Accept-Language: fr-FR, en, it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp2.proxad.net 949741106 213.228.24.156 (Sat, 05 Feb 2000 09:58:26 CET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 09:58:26 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Stanley R. Allen" wrote: > ... > > This is bad reasoning, probably based on poor observation. Scripts > are becoming a much bigger part of the software development scene, and > it's a shame that the script languages in use now are based so heavily > on the hacker mentality. In our project, scripts have gotten very large > and are used for many critical capabilities. Some are thousands of lines > long. We maintain these scripts in our CM database just like the Ada, C, > and FORTRAN code. They have long life -- over 5 years. They must be > documented because they are updated by many hands over a long period of > time. Sound familiar? > > The philosophy of Ada, if not all its details, needs to migrate to > the world of script languages, because scripts ARE software -- the same > rules and pitfalls apply. > ... This is my exact feeling. I wonder why there is so many chat about OS in Ada, and no one is interested in this issue? ________________________________________________________________________ Lionel Draghi http://attac.org/