From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:01:31 -0500
Date: 2012-06-21T13:01:31-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jrvni0$suu$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 145eefe89c8eae1ef97489ba21b94d63@dizum.com
"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message
news:145eefe89c8eae1ef97489ba21b94d63@dizum.com...
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> Metric's for expressive power are useful for comparing the languages
> fitness for a particular purpose. E.g. if the purpose is filtering
> e-mail, it would be foolish to neglect to consider the language that
> probably has the single most expressive power for that kind of job
> (the procmail language). The language was in fact specially designed
> just for that purpose.
I don't know about that -- learning another language adds a significant time
investment, so special purpose languages have to be amazingly good to have
any value. (Which they don't, IMHO.)
I wrote my spam filter in Ada (and on my own time, it never was intended to
be a product), and the text processing was not that much of a problem.
Indeed, the only real issue was that I refuse to use "use clauses", and thus
a lot of the expressions became unreadable because of
"Ada.Strings.Unbounded." everywhere. The less stuborn would not have that
problem.
I think I spend a lot of time on the GUI, and on the SMTP implementation,
but not that much on the string manipulation. Which I suspect mainly
demonstrates that people tend to be the most productive using the tools that
they are the most familar (and comfortable) with.
Randy.
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2012-06-08 20:48 Practicalities of Ada for app development wrp
2012-06-08 21:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-09 0:40 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-09 6:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-21 17:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-21 18:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-21 19:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-21 20:30 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-21 21:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-22 4:59 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-22 5:32 ` Tero Koskinen
2012-06-22 19:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-21 21:15 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-22 10:43 ` Tero Koskinen
2012-06-21 21:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-21 21:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-22 19:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-23 6:43 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-09 4:30 ` BrianG
2012-06-09 7:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-13 10:20 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-09 6:55 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-06-09 7:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-09 9:25 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-09 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-10 3:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-12 20:10 ` i3text
2012-06-13 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-21 17:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-13 10:28 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-13 13:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-09 16:09 ` tmoran
2012-06-13 10:29 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-09 23:18 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-10 3:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-10 14:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-10 16:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-10 17:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-10 17:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-10 19:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-10 21:36 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-11 8:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 14:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-11 14:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 16:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-06-11 18:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 17:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-11 18:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-11 21:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-12 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-12 9:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-12 11:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-12 12:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-12 12:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 18:29 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-11 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-11 21:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-21 17:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-21 17:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-10 18:15 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-10 19:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 6:34 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-06-21 17:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-10 15:49 ` Shark8
2012-06-10 17:04 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-10 19:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-11 0:37 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-11 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-12 6:24 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-12 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-13 10:35 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-13 13:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-14 3:21 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-14 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-14 8:39 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-14 9:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-21 17:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-11 0:00 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-11 3:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-11 21:10 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-11 21:55 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-12 8:07 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-12 15:28 ` Fritz Wuehler
2012-06-12 21:34 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-14 11:12 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-21 18:01 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2012-06-12 21:12 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-13 0:04 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-13 3:04 ` Shark8
2012-06-13 8:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-13 18:21 ` Shark8
2012-06-13 19:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-13 22:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-14 8:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-14 9:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-14 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-21 18:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-13 8:35 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-13 8:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-13 10:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-11 22:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-13 10:31 ` quiet_lad
2012-06-13 12:57 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-06-14 4:18 ` quiet_lad
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2012-06-14 10:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-12 19:17 ` i3text
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