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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:52:40 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:33:02 +0200, Per Sandbergs wrote:
> 
> This means that we are looking more and more on Ada as long term "scripting"
> language.

I agree. A friend asked if I could help him analyse some logs and I
ended up writing a small program in Ada to do the task. It was much
faster than starting to learn awk or other similar tools to do it.

Preben