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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> 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 :-)

Hmm, what about SPITBOL? ;-)