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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Usefulness of Formal Notions in Programming
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Date: 2012-03-08T04:30:42-06:00
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On 3/8/2012 3:24 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>
> This is the problem of all poor solutions. Be it formal grammars, patterns,
> domain-specific languages, scripting languages etc. You get a simple job
> done simply and quickly. That makes you think - that is. But when you face
> a real task you are lost.
>

True. But most software apps these days are simple and throw away apps
anyway. You can buy one for 59 cents only :)

So people pick the easiest language to make these apps with in
the fastest way.

May be what we need is an AdaScript language?

A very simplified version of Ada with a GUI build-in and
an interpreter instead of a compiler, then Ada will become
popular again !

--Nasser