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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
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Le Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:49:40 +0200, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> a =
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=C3=A9crit:
> Ironically, most of them aren't used in the mainstream of software  =

> development which tends to fall back on C's string manipulation [style=
  =

> of] functions or Regex (which is horrible if you look at Regex from a =
 =

> maintenance perspective.).

If Regular Expressions appears as is, as literals in the program, yes,  =

that's a maintenance nightmare. But you may decompose the expressions,  =

build them incrementally (I use to do it with Python), or even fork to  =

something similar which could use objects and structures instead of  =

unreadable literal expressions (I don't one, just an idea).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity