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: 103376,4f316de357ae35e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-05 06:41:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions Date: 05 Aug 2002 09:37:42 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <20020730093206.A8550@videoproject.kiev.ua> <4519e058.0207300548.15eeb65c@posting.google.com> <20020731104643.C1083@videoproject.kiev.ua> <3D487CDA.24D9B1AE@san.rr.com> <20020801142038.J1080@videoproject.kiev.ua> <3D495747.C71E4CDC@san.rr.com> <3D4B2631.7050509@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1028555174 10081 128.183.220.71 (5 Aug 2002 13:46:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Aug 2002 13:46:14 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27701 Date: 2002-08-05T13:46:14+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison writes: > It would be nice to have a strongly-typed "make" language though. I > can't really figure out a good way to do rule-based systems like > rebuilding tools in Ada. So I have to learn all the gnarly dark > corners in Make. Yech. I agree; Gnu make is "gnarly". It is also extremely powerful; I could not work without it. How people that only use MS VC++ manage, I don't know :). Maybe we should look at the internals of 'gnatmake'; it does some of the same kinds of thing. Maybe we could write Ada scripts using the "gnatmake library" that would replace Gnu make. Someday, when I have lots of time ... -- -- Stephe