Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development

[Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
> 
> there are existing libraries to do such things in Ada.  I think
> Vadim Godunko has a regular expression matcher

Any high-level language can be expanded with libraries.  This
capability doesn't offer a means to claim that the language itself is
good for all problems.

One project might use Bob's String Parsing Machine (tm), while another
project becomes dependant on Vadim's Regex Swiss Army Knife (tm).  So
you have the wheel reinvented in multiple styles, and developers who
cannot count on homogeneous interfaces being available as they move
from one project to the next.  OTOH, you can count on developers to
know the language.  IOW, what would otherwise be common knowledge
becomes tribal knowledge - knowledge that's lost with turnover.  And
libs that are not held to the same standards and verification as the
compiler.