From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pyAda, first public release
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:21:11 +0000
Date: 2001-03-01T14:21:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9E5AD7.FAB962F5@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
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Brad Clements wrote:
>
> I thought one of the big points of using Ada was its verifiability -- making
> it more suitable for complex, "large-scale" (i.e, expensive) projects, like
> missile defense.
>
> Plugging in a "non-verifiable" script plug-in kinda defeats this purpose..
> doesn't it?
You're asking for a pure Ada implementation of Python, then. Even
without this, being able to embed a Python (or Tcl) interpreter
into an existing system can be very useful, as it lets you provide
the system with a macro language as part of the user interface...
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2001-03-01 2:54 [ANNOUNCE] pyAda, first public release Gerhard Häring
2001-03-01 14:01 ` Brad Clements
2001-03-01 14:21 ` John English [this message]
2001-03-01 17:58 ` David Starner
2001-03-01 15:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-04-07 16:43 ` Charles Hixson
2001-03-01 19:36 ` Terry Westley
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