Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Bill Tate wrote in comp.lang.ada:
> James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.com> wrote in message news:<mr41eu4klae9knk5978o0ru89i5vjc6u2e@4ax.com>...
>> We have JavaScript and VBScript ...
>> 
>> And then there is Perl, Python, ... etc.
>> 
>> If someone where to create a type-less and interpreted variant of the
>> Ada language, that for all practical purposes was Ada syntax / rules
>> without the strong typing -- would that be a useful or worthwhile
>> thing to do?  Or would it be just obfuscating what Ada is all about?
>> 
>> JR
> 
> Perhaps http://pyada.sourceforge.net/ would be of some interest. 
> Gerhard Haring's page is still available on-line. While its not
> currently being maintained, I don't imagine there would be a
> resistance to someone pursuing it further.

If anybody wants to pursue this and has any questions, don't hesitate
to email me directly. I'm currently not following c.l.a.

> As to whether it would be worthwhile or not - others are better
> suited to answering that question.

Depends on what you type of scripting you want, something like pyAda
is certainly great for embedding Python/Tcl/.. as a scripting language
into your application.

But if you want to call external programs or manipulate files, that's
where the well-known scripting languages are IMO far better suited
than strongly typed languages like Ada, which also have inferior
library support for these kind of tasks (only considering what
standard Ada provides).

Gerhard
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