ANN: SparForte 1.4

ANN: SparForte 1.4

[koburtch]

SparForte 1.4
    Type : Programming Language
Platforms: Linux i386/x86_64/Pi and FreeBSD
  License: GPL

  Home URL: http://www.sparforte.com   *NEW*

SparForte is an Ada-based command shell, template engine and scripting
language.  It natively interprets Bourne shell commands and basic
database commands at the command prompt and has an integrated
debugger.  There are 23 built-in packages including MySQL, PostgreSQL,
CGI and Memcache and over 80 example scripts.

Major Features in Version 1.4

- software lifecycle awareness
- unused identifier and style checks
- simple exception handling
- database fixes/improvements
- sound support switched to GStreamer
- pragma blocks and chains

See ChangeLog in sources for a complete list.
See http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_august_2013.html blog for a more detailed overview.

Started in 2001 as the Business Shell, SparForte is an open project
being supported in my spare time.  If you enjoy SparForte and find it
useful, contact me and I'll continue to support it.  Volunteers are
welcome to contribute.

Email me at my pegasoft account if you find errors.   However, I'm working on a second university degree at night so please be patient as it may take some time to provide fixes.

Have fun.

Re: ANN: SparForte 1.4

[Jerry]

How is SparForte different from AdaScript?
Jerry

Re: ANN: SparForte 1.4

[Stephen Leake]

Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:

> How is SparForte different from AdaScript?

1) I found http://sparforte.com/examples.html as the first hit on an
ask.com search; AdaScript did not show up on the first page of an
ask.com search.

2) sparforte.com was not the first hit on a google search.

3) Google search for AdaScript turned up this:

http://www.pegasoft.ca/docs/sparforte12/doc/ref_adascript.html

which says:

    The computer language that the SparForte shell understands is called
    AdaScript.

So apparently the answer is "SparForte is an implementation of
AdaScript".

If you can provide a better reference for AdaScript, I might be able to
say more.

In general, it is polite and necessary to provide URL references when
asking questions like this; search engines are not a good substitute.

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-- Stephe