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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0208211147.6253fb4@posting.google.com>...
> kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in message news:<ba162549.0208210637.63f4f7cb@posting.google.com>...
> > "Vincent Smeets" <No@Spam.org> wrote in message news:<ajrisv$lc9$03$1@news.t-online.com>...
> > > I am working on a remote site and I want all my e-mail to be encrypted and
> > > forwarded. I am writing a program that will create a new mail with an
> > > attachment that contains the encrypted mail (with PGP).
> > 
> > Consider writing this in Perl.  You can probably learn enough Perl
> > to do this job, and then write the code in less time than you will
> > spend trying to get it to work in Ada.  My initial estimate is that
> > you can do this in less than 100 lines of Perl.  There are already
> > freely available Perl packages that understand mail and encryption,
> > but in Ada you will have to write all that code from scratch.
> 
> That of course is completely wrong. Please do not take such statements in
> posts to CLA as statements of fact, when mostly they just reflect what the
> poster is or is not familiar with.

Really?  You've presented no evidence to contradict my claim.

Google searches for 'Ada mail' and 'Ada PGP' came up empty,
but searches for 'Perl mail' and 'Perl PGP' were fruitful.

So I am holding to my statement.  Perl excels for simple
text filtering applications like the one the OP is trying
to build.