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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fa2cc518ef3b992c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ray Blaak Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Date: 2000/02/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 581610305 Sender: blaak@LANGLEY References: <389207CC.C16D80E8@averstar.com> <38971028.BB16D8A2@earthlink.net> <3899F757.FAE131B3@free.fr> X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bctel.net 949689358 209.53.149.65 (Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:35:58 PDT) Organization: The Transcend NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:35:58 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Cheers, The Rhythm is around me, The Rhythm has control. Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me, blaak@infomatch.com The Rhythm has my soul.