Re: Ada script, anyone

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Xcriber51 wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This will probably be a (slightly?) absurd question, but is there an Ada
> (script) interpreter?
> 
> The reason I'm asking is I know a C/C++ interpreter which, though it is a
> barebones commandline interpreter and does not provide the full comfort of
> an integrated IDE (with a debugger, etc.), makes life easier.
> 
> It'd be great to have a tool like the universally ever popular Visual
> Basic thing - which most coders I know prefer to everything else - that'd
> be as easy to get going and introduce them (or help them side-grade) to
> Ada.

Maybe not what you're asking for, but there's BUSH, which is a unix 
shell with Ada-like syntax:

http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html

(Disclaimer: never used it myself so I can't provide first hand 
experience. That said, I ported an Eliza bush script to proper Ada and 
it was almost straight).

Looking at the webpage now I see it has grown further than simply an Ada 
shell... anyone using it?