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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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Date: 2015-07-28T09:00:36+02:00
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On 28.07.15 00:59, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Ada is (...)  certainly not for prototyping

For Ada to be useful here, the specifics of the prototype might
play a role, I think:
If the prototype depends on libraries inaccessible from Ada, o.K.
But otherwise, since prototyping seems more about shams, facades,
hollow building blocks, reduced feature set, speed, fake data, limited
I/O support, etc., why would C, say, be better for prototyping
than Ada? When would SETL, or Python, or BigEEMathSimPack be better
suited? If, for example, a LAMP style prototype of some Web based
service is to be made, then using either Ada, or Java, or C# doesn't
look so forbidding, although it might not be socially acceptable.

(I'm currently porting a collection of Python programs from one
Python environment to another. The code has evolved from a prototype.
I wish Python had Ada like types and parameter profiles if only
because of the added value of documenting What This Thing Is™.
How is a prototype useful when the language used for prototyping
tends to vaporize the Why-and-How of its choices and structure?)