From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Apr 93 04:41:12 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: perl in an Ada-mandated world Message-ID: List-Id: >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 -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178