From: Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>
Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions)
Date: 2000/02/04
Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu2joq0gj.fsf@infomatch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.21.0002031503590.2580-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
I think that Ada as a scripting language is not a good idea.
The philosophy of Ada caters to careful design and implementation, strong
typing, etc. Ada is a language useful for making well crafted software.
Scripting languages, on the other hand, tend to be used for small, quickly
written programs, and good ones tend to have a succinct powerful notation.
I consider scsh (Scheme shell) to be an ideal scripting language: small
definition, succinct notation, high order functions and lexical closures,
garbage collection, etc. It has the full power of Scheme with a well designed
interface to system services, as well as an interesting regular expression
notation.
Alternatively, Perl does just fine in a pinch.
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The Rhythm has control.
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Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-27 0:00 tagged types extensions - language design question Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Fraser
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Andy
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Andy
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-03 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) root
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Ray Blaak [this message]
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-05 0:00 ` blaak
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-11 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (we have an opportunity here) Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-12 0:00 ` blaak
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-02-12 0:00 ` root
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-02-16 0:00 ` scripting/extension ... [off topic] Nick Roberts
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-11 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) David Starner
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-12 0:00 ` blaak
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-05 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged typesextensions) Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Ehud Lamm
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-06 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada Terry Westley
2000-02-06 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Ehud Lamm
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-31 0:00 ` tagged types extensions - language design question Mark Lundquist
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
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