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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: What are some of the uses for Ada?
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:21:07 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > But Ada is not always my first choice for solving a problem. =A0When I
> > solve system administration tasks, I often use Bash.
>
> Huh, what about bash arrays. Aren't they just great? What about a variabl=
e
> modified in the loop dealing with a pipe? Nice thing, lot of fun.
> Processing double quotation marks in the bodies of strings. Just deliciou=
s!
>
> If there were Ada interpreter for Linux I would never use bash. But even
> without it, each time I write a script I must later admit, that it would =
be
> better and *quicker* to use a full-blown Ada program instead.

There exists such an interpreter, it is called BUSH (BUsiness SHell):

http://www.pegasoft.ca/bush.html

I've been toying with the idea of packaging it for Debian but never
got around to it, so I still use bash on the command line and dash for
scripts.  However, if I ever need something as sophisticated as an
array, I immediately switch to Ada.

--
Ludovic Brenta.