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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:09:20 +0000 (UTC)
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>Ada is lousy for text/string manipulation.  Although I'm an Ada
>enthusiast, I cannot think of a worse language in this regard.
  Speak for yourself.  I find it easy to do text processing in Ada,
given a few home-grown library routines.  But having written compilers
in both Fortran and COBOL, perhaps my standards aren't up to your level.