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From: Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>
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Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: 2012-07-30T13:04:24-07:00
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hmmm. The other list members will be able to provide better answers but some quick thoughts...

I think the Ada curl binding might be out of date.  It would however be very easy to write a few functions in C and then call them from Ada and utilize CURL this way.

Perl like text processing will not be good. You could do the same for the PCRE C library as mentioned for CURl or if you want to write a real parser, Ada's rich data structures and good proformance would make this ideal.

Don't know anything about email code..

HTH