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On Jun 9, 9:09=A0am, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> >Ada is lousy for text/string manipulation. =A0Although I'm an Ada
> >enthusiast, I cannot think of a worse language in this regard.
>
> =A0 Speak for yourself. =A0I find it easy to do text processing in Ada,
> given a few home-grown library routines. =A0But having written compilers
> in both Fortran and COBOL, perhaps my standards aren't up to your level.

Do you open source such routines?