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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Script-like jobs in Ada (ideas for HAC)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:49:09 +0100
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gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com writes:

> The question is: what kind of jobs do you prefer let a scripting
> language do and not Ada?

The problem was a membership database, which as inherited was an Excel
spreadsheet with one sheet per year, and many issues of consistency and
form.

My first thought was Ada, but I totally failed at the "simple" task of
reading/writing a CSV file; looking at SQLite interfacing, producing a
GUI, sending mail, and the thought that someone else might well inherit
it from me, I decided that Python was the best compromise.

~3000 lines (including blanks).