Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message news:<abqitv$qr9$03$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Look at Adaed:
> 
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/ada
> 
> Title:          Ada/Ed
> Version:        1.12
> Entered-date:   28JUN99
> Description:    Ada95 interpreter

This is a highly uninformed comment. For sure, the poster has not followed
his own advice (and looked at Adaed). The fact that Adaed is interpreted 
is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. Adaed is a full implementation
of Ada 83. It is not suitable for any kind of production use, and is even
less suitable as either a scripting language or the basis for a scripting
language.

The notion of high level weakly typed scripting languages and the notion
of interpretation are orthogonal.

There are fully compiled high level weakly typed language implementations
(e.g. SPITBOL/360), and fully interpreted strongly typed low level languages
(e.g. Java!)