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From: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
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wrp <i3text@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I develop small to medium sized tools. Tasks are mostly limited to
> text processing, database management, and simple visualization.

Ada is lousy for text/string manipulation.  Although I'm an Ada
enthusiast, I cannot think of a worse language in this regard.  The
string library is feature-poor, so you'll find yourself writing basic
libraries for constructs that are included in many languages.

Ada is (by design) a safe language.  But the side effect is that
strings are arrays of characters and the developer is forced to be
mindful of boundaries.. bogged down with detail.