Re: Data table text I/O package?

["Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> If there is enough data to make sense processing it with a
> program, there is little point at looking at it manually.

It would be fine if you said "then I see" instead of "there is".
How do you know what is there, as you aren't a scientist, but a software
engineer, regardless of you professional skills in your domain?

You obviosly don't like data very much, but for a scientist that scientific
data (often including raw experimental data) is one of the most valuable
things. It certainly deserves attentive look (at least, from time to time),
not just a bureacratic "analysis".

> Truthfully, if what you described above is true, you probably ought to be
> programming in Perl (ugh) or Python. Because Ada's text processing is its
> weak link, and it makes little sense to write any significant amount of text
> processing code in Ada.

It would be interesting to hear reply from Robert Dewar to this opinion about
text processing capabilities of Ada -:) . Actually, serious text processing
is perfectly possible with Ada, and in fact Ada is more suitable for it than
Perl. Ada is unsuitable for quick scripting (especially by novice), but it
is true for all application domains, it is true for numerical computations
as well as for text processing .