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: 2002-05-21 14:05:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0205151846.4b14a73f@posting.google.com> <87lmadns60.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1022015159 299 129.241.83.82 (21 May 2002 21:05:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:05:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24483 Date: 2002-05-21T21:05:59+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 21 May 2002 22:48:39 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > As a rule of thumb, most people consider something to be a scripting > language if it fulfills one or more of the following criteria: Agreeing with your point I would say that using Ada as a "scripting language" is when you write write-once-never-read hacks to do a simple task like manipulating some text or other. I have done this several times and surprisingly it is very easy to do fast and correctly in Ada. -- Preben