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: 2002-05-17 16:20:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE59039.6E9BB6D9@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) 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> <5ee5b646.0205151846.4b14a73f@posting.google.com> <3CE3D8B4.C272C737@san.rr.com> <3CE3EA03.394B3EA@despammed.com> <3CE3FFE7.775E5103@san.rr.com> <3CE514CD.DC9C679@despammed.com> <3CE52E77.FC3FC588@san.rr.com> <3CE53670.3E5E177D@san.rr.com> <3CE58EAD.BD67EFD0@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:20:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1021677603 66.75.151.160 (Fri, 17 May 2002 16:20:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:20:03 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24320 Date: 2002-05-17T23:20:03+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > > > > Because I don't need those other four steps in Ada. > > > > Sorry. Of course I meant, I don't need those other four steps except in Ada. > > If your script didn't write the script you are sourcing, > then your Ada program doesn't need to write the program > it invokes. Um, right. If you look, I didn't say you did. > > take to find an arbitrary Ada source, compile it in a cross-platform > > way, write out all your state, invoke the compiled program, and then > > somehow clean up all that afterwards, taking care to catch any errors. I didn't say anything about creating the source there. > You listed five steps, but your examples > only do one of the steps--invoke. That's because what you need to do in Ada is incomparible to the ease with which you can do it in a typical scripting language. In Tcl, Perl, and Python, for example, there's no need to write out the state, compile the program, invoke a program, or clean up, because you don't need to do that to add executable code to a process at runtime. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.