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: 103376,4f316de357ae35e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-05 13:08:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D4EDB41.C91A668A@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: FAQ and string functions References: <3D4EBA9B.848B572D@san.rr.com> <41A39.28$Lx7.4736024@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:08:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.74.216.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1028578090 66.74.216.166 (Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:08:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:08:10 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27724 Date: 2002-08-05T20:08:10+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > If it's separable, run rarely, not safety or time critical, and > there's plenty of RAM & disk, then Perl certainly seems a better choice. I think this describes a great deal of software. (I'd also add something about maintainability, especially talking about Perl but with all scripting languages to some extent.) On the other hand, it seems clear to me that Ada wins hands down when you need something embedded, real-time, safe, etc. If you could add the convenient parts of Perl and Tcl and etc to Ada without ruining the Ada parts, you'd be in even better shape *and* probably attract more newbie programmers to the language. I think Grace would help that a bunch. :-) {Altho nothing beats generating code on the fly inside a loop and running it ;-} -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** They looked up at me like I was a T-bone steak walking into an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.