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: a07f3367d7,4d3e59455e947c5e
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.180.107.167 with SMTP id hd7mr1169245wib.0.1344848476784;
        Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:01:16 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 n2ni106905659win.0!nntp.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!newspeer1.nac.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!80.86.168.138.MISMATCH!news-feed.eu.lambdanet.net!news.bcc.de!newsfeeder.ewetel.de!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:01:46 +0200
Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation
Message-ID: <87r4rk9yx1.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk>
References: <d47dda80-8ac6-4aab-a484-6495eab4f3c6@googlegroups.com>
	<51d2c7fe-0081-496d-87fd-d12459652c8c@q2g2000vbv.googlegroups.com>
	<gyw6mzifpx1h.11b1a3ph9d5pj.dlg@40tude.net>
	<0e4fe8f5-70dc-4c61-af99-e1ca5d8c4f0e@googlegroups.com>
	<d2b7a1a9-803f-4b45-b430-40353226d218@d6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.27.20.201.bredband.3.dk
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1344243709 17965 212.27.20.201 (6 Aug 2012 09:01:49 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:01:49 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:vnLFtNMH17SrttwQeLSp1ysCgpE=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: 2012-08-06T11:01:46+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Dufr wrote:

> What I expect to need, at this early stage, are libraries for text
> processing, which I guess are available as native Ada libraries.

Depending on what you mean by text processing, you may find them in the
standard libraries, as a part of the GNAT libraries or as third-party
Open Source libraries.

> Then I may need some basic (client-side) email functionality, and some
> library that allows me to retrieve webpages and ftp resources.

AWS has these features included.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"USA fights for the right of the individual."
"Yes.  Those of the individual George W. Bush."
                                     -- with thanks to Olfax