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In article <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner says...
>
>Strings aren't Ada's strength, but Ada isn't terribly weak in strings. I
>don't see any problem in parsing the input using Ada. 

Actually, if you don't mind using the Gnat-specific SNOBOL packages, Ada's
string support is right up there with any scripting language. Even without it,
it still beats C++.

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