From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
Date: 14 May 2002 07:18:38 -0700
Date: 2002-05-14T14:18:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mr41eu4klae9knk5978o0ru89i5vjc6u2e@4ax.com
James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.com> wrote in message news:<mr41eu4klae9knk5978o0ru89i5vjc6u2e@4ax.com>...
> We have JavaScript and VBScript ...
>
> And then there is Perl, Python, ... etc.
>
> If someone where to create a type-less and interpreted variant of the
> Ada language, that for all practical purposes was Ada syntax / rules
> without the strong typing -- would that be a useful or worthwhile
> thing to do? Or would it be just obfuscating what Ada is all about?
>
> JR
One would hazard a guess from the above that someone thinks that
JavaScript has something to do with Java. Why would anyone
possibly think that :-) :-)
At ACT we use (full) Ada as a scripting language all the time. The
advantages of strong typing etc apply perfectly well in this environment
as well. Our only problems with scripts are the old ones written in junk
untyped languages like shell scripts :-)
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2002-05-14 4:51 Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? James Ross
2002-05-14 5:15 ` James Ross
2002-05-14 8:47 ` Ingo Marks
2002-05-14 14:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 19:24 ` Ingo Marks
2002-05-15 5:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 9:03 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-14 14:18 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-05-14 15:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-14 16:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-15 6:33 ` Per Sandbergs
2002-05-15 8:52 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-15 11:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-05-15 12:56 ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-15 14:28 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-16 2:46 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-16 16:04 ` Darren New
2002-05-16 17:18 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-16 18:52 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 14:33 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 16:22 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 16:56 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 23:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 23:20 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 16:58 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 17:23 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 17:35 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-17 17:44 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 18:02 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-17 23:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 23:27 ` Darren New
2002-05-18 2:54 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-18 2:59 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-28 0:31 ` David Thompson
2002-05-29 1:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-21 20:48 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-21 21:05 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-22 7:17 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-22 11:29 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-21 20:35 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-15 11:39 ` Bill Tate
2002-05-17 19:24 ` Gerhard Häring
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