Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Tero Koskinen" <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:20120622083215.f4d37d14bee6f2a5f144bbe6@iki.fi...
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:59:08 +0100
...
> Another nice feature of recent gdb (7.0) is Python scripting:
> http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-Commands.html
> http://napsy.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/gdb-7-scripting/

The Janus/Ada debugger uses an Ada-like language for this purpose (and, 
indeed, for all commands). (Although, as I previously mentioned, that 
feature doesn't work on breakpoints; never spent the time to figure out 
why.) Why learn another language when Ada does everything better already? 
;-)

[Seriously, an Ada debugger needs to be able to evaluate Ada expressions to 
be useful. Once you have that capability, adding assignment and if 
statements is pretty simple, and that's mainly what you need to write 
macros. Why implement a whole new language when the one you have it already 
pretty good and complete?]

                                   Randy.