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On Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:25:05 AM UTC, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> wrp <i3text@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I develop small to medium sized tools. Tasks are mostly limited to
> > text processing, database management, and simple visualization.
> 
> Ada is lousy for text/string manipulation.  Although I'm an Ada
> enthusiast, I cannot think of a worse language in this regard.  The
> string library is feature-poor, so you'll find yourself writing basic
> libraries for constructs that are included in many languages.
> 
> Ada is (by design) a safe language.  But the side effect is that
> strings are arrays of characters and the developer is forced to be
> mindful of boundaries.. bogged down with detail.

Why not use Unbounded_Strings then? Then it wouldn't be "array of character".
And I don't think that Ada's string manipulation routines are that bad - we have all the important subprograms and only when you have some specialized use case you are in need of writing your own subprogram.
The only thing I can whine about in this regard is UTF8 support. But that is the case for C too. And for many other languages too.