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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84bf0ec36cf20893 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-15 04:35:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!207.217.77.43.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE24857.52AFE00@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? References: <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com> <8inE8.6573$l55.10202@news2.bredband.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:35:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.191.77.247 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1021462548 63.191.77.247 (Wed, 15 May 2002 04:35:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 04:35:48 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24089 Date: 2002-05-15T11:35:48+00:00 List-Id: Per Sandbergs wrote: > > We have tried evrything (having projects that lasts for 10 or more years) > and the only two things that survives for a while is Ada-code provided that > ther is a consistent set of libraries and while on the same platform the > native shell which in the Win32 case happend to be ".bat" files or on AIX > korrn-shell. > > This means that we are looking more and more on Ada as long term "scripting" > language. I've used Ada as a scripting language on more than one occasion as well. One tool I found invaluable in support of this is James Rogers' Ada binding to pipes (http://www.adapower.com/reuse/pipes.html). At its simplest, you can use it to execute a system command, then read in and process the result of executing that command as if it were a text file. Makes Ada-based scripting very simple (and Pipes works on both Unix and Windows). Marc A. Criley Consultant Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com