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,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9333969071d4358 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie Date: 2000/08/18 Message-ID: <399D472D.540CBAA@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 659743558 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8ngv4j$ko9$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu> <399C4A87.F0A16B8C@acm.org> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 18 Aug 2000 14:25:09 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-18T14:25:09+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Hrmf, I just made a small Ada program to format text to be sent as SMS > to my celluar phone. It probably could have been done in perl, but it > took me less time to do it in Ada and it worked right away :-) > Oh, all right. I'll confess to hacking in Ada too. I have a large collection of tools hanging around on the disk and I'm so familiar with all of them that I can usually pull together a quickie app to parse some text file or fix something in a database faster in Ada than I might in some other scripting language with which I had less familiarity. But when I used to spend lots of time on VMS, I could slap together a DCL job that would accomplish fairly sophisticated kinds of things much more easily than I could hack an Ada program of similar function. Depends on the problem space. Lots of file manipulation and OS interaction? DCL would be easier. Of course, there was no problem building a DCL job that could run Ada hacks in it when Ada did it easier. :-) Too bad VMS is fading into the background - withering in the shade cast by the various flavors of Unix. (I'm a hard core VMS bigot!) Maybe Compaq ought to make the source public and maybe someone could make a Linux-like thing out of it? MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Take away the punchbowl just when the party gets going" -- William McChesney Martin, Former Fed chairman, explaining what a sound central bank must always do. ======================================================================