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Subject: Script-like jobs in Ada (ideas for HAC)
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Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58485
Date: 2020-04-24T12:45:33-07:00
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It's a poll - sort of.

The question is: what kind of jobs do you prefer let a scripting language d=
o and not Ada?

My guess is that this kind of choice is related to toolsets, libraries and =
other aspects that are not necessarily related to languages.
For instance you would perhaps avoid using Ada for a 30-lines program that =
browses files and collects some information in those files (just an example=
). Or a little math / stats program? Or a small game?
But maybe the real reason (even if it is unconscious) you'd avoid Ada is be=
cause the compiler you are using is slow, or because it spits objects and e=
xecutable files each time you change your small program. And you'd be more =
comfortable with a script that runs immediately without making garbage file=
s.

A goal of the HAC compiler [1] is precisely to blur the border between a sc=
ript and an Ada program: from the command line, you write "hax myprog.adb" =
and it just runs (that's already working). Now I'd be curious of examples o=
f scripts you'd consider writing in Ada with HAC, if it supplied the conven=
ient functions and libraries. It's all work-in-progress currently, and idea=
s of applications are welcome at this point of the development.

Thanks for any input!
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[1] http://hacadacompiler.sf.net/  and  https://github.com/zertovitch/hac