From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84bf0ec36cf20893 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-17 12:24:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9eb7ddb.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? Date: 17 May 2002 19:24:12 GMT Organization: People's Front of Judea Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9eb7ddb.dip.t-dialin.net (217.235.125.219) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1021663452 23689148 217.235.125.219 (16 [124666]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Cache-Post-Path: gargamel.hqd-internal!unknown@lilith.hqd-internal X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24305 Date: 2002-05-17T19:24:12+00:00 List-Id: Bill Tate wrote in comp.lang.ada: > James Ross wrote in message news:... >> 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 -- mail: gerhard bigfoot de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id AD24C930 public key fingerprint: 3FCC 8700 3012 0A9E B0C9 3667 814B 9CAA AD24 C930 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))