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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
language)
Date: 07 Apr 2004 19:40:50 +0200
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David Starner writes:
> Or I could go with Ada. There's no standard networking code, and no way
> to input UTF-8 - I can't even input it into the basic character type and
> process it, not and stay within the standard. (Of course, that's what
> everyone does.) Worse yet, there's no standard or even existing libraries
> (IIRC) that will normalize Unicode text or sort it in a language dependent
> manner.
Fine just do it and release the code as Open Source!
The problem with the Ada community is that we tend to spend more time saying
that this and that is missing than to do the job. Who did most of the Perl or
Python code out there ?
Now I agree that the Ada community is small, lot smaller than the Python, Perl
or Java ones... So we just need to work harder :) And we have the luck to have
Ada on our side with its great productivity !
Just do it :) ... and propose it for inclusion in the next standard.
Now about UTF-8, did you looked at XML/Ada or XML4Ada95 ? For networking did
you looked at AdaSockets or GNAT.Sockets ? This is not in the standard, ok,
but it is well designed and maintained.
Pascal.
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