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

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> 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.

In Ada maybe, with GNAT for sure with:

        GNAT.Command_Line
        GNAT.Directory_Operations
        GNAT.Directory_Operations.Iteration
        GNAT.Dynamic_Tables
        GNAT.Regexp
        GNAT.Regpat
        GNAT.Spitbol
        GNAT.AWK
        GNAT.Expect

Pascal.

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