From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,508516c114ade8e1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.213.68 with SMTP id nq4mr16806862pbc.2.1328702512869; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:01:52 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni1081pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada without ada libraries? References: Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:02:12 -0500 Message-ID: <82mx8tttx7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2gl9JKeh8uWFtD8dln7ANTmJcZg= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 9706c4f326430e029e66114967 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-02-08T07:02:12-05:00 List-Id: Patrick writes: > Hi Everyone > > I just got my compiler set up the way I want it and I am ready for my > first ada project. > > I have spent sometime with lua. Lua's library support is terrible but > lots of people love the language. Many people just build a rough > skeleton application in C and call it from lua. > > Lua handles all the type checking and much of the logic in this > arrangement and C is mostly just library code. > > Would this same approach seem logical for ada? -Patrick Yes; "Anything C can do, Ada can do Better" Lua should be used for user scripting, not large-scale programming. -- -- Stephe