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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types
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Date: 2000/02/05
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Robert A Duff wrote:

|Anyway, "quickly written" is irrelevant.  The only time it can possibly
|make sense to use languages that are difficult to maintain is when
|you're going to quickly throw away the code after writing it.
|

Quite. Actually one of my question for SE students is "what is the impact
of glue programs written in non-safe scripting languages, on overal system
reliability" (well it is phrased differently, but this is the point of the
question). 

It is always worth repeating that there is nothing as perpetual as the
temporary...

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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