Re: perl in an Ada-mandated world

[world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian)]

>I'm curious to know if newly-written perl scripts are permitted in the
>world of mandated Ada.  I used to write software in a mixture of about
>80% C and 20% sh/csh/awk/sed.  Now it's more like 50% perl and 50% C,
>with some C++ creeping in.  I see no reason why, given slightly
>different circumstances, it couldn't be 50% perl and 50% Ada.
>
>But how does the Ada world cope with the many things the perl does so
>well and no other language does?

    As an example, from what I hear through the grapevine, the current
hot language being used for all new things at that bastion of defense of
Ada and the Mandate, MITRE, is perl.  So that's one way to deal with
perl in the Mandated world, just use it.

    50% perl and 50% Ada is like 50% Bahai and 50% Catholic.  One half
doesn't mind, the other half sees heresy.

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
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