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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: 2000/02/06
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Lionel Draghi wrote:

|As Robert A Duff said :
|"Scripting languages should encourage programs that are easy to
|write, easy to understand, and easy to change."

This seems like a good goal for all kinds of languages...

|
|> So I wouldn't go in the direction of an Ada or Ada-like scripiting
|> language, but rather in one or both of these directions:
|> - packages that supply functionality useflu for scripting jobs.
|> - embeddable little languages that can be usedfrom inside Ada systems.
|With the former available for the later, i suppose?

Or the other way arround...

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