From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions)
Date: 2000/02/09
Date: 2000-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc3dr2mq9z.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87gvdl$qsp$1@nnrp1.deja.com
blaak@infomatch.com writes:
> There is always room for a better language. Is Ada right for a
> scripting language, though?
No.
> > Anyway, "quickly written" is irrelevant. The only time it can
> > possibly make sense to use languages that are difficult to
> > maintain is when you're going to quickly throw away the code
> > after writing it.
>
> Nobody (at least not me) is advocating the use of scripting
> languages that are difficult to maintain.
Maybe *you're* not, but lots of people do so advocate. ;-)
> Scripting languages should encourage programs that are easy to
> write, easy to understand, and easy to change.
Maybe we're not using "script" in the same way.
For example, I consider the make files and whatnot that are used to
build a program and run its regression tests, to be scripts. But these
are long-lived pieces of software, and therefore need to be
maintainable. So "easy to write" is mostly irrelevant.
"easy to understand, and easy to change" are key.
- Bob
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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 ` 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
2000-01-27 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
2000-01-28 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
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 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
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 [this message]
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 ` David Starner
2000-02-12 0:00 ` blaak
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
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 ` 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
2000-02-12 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (we have an opportunity here) 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 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-12 0:00 ` blaak
2000-02-14 0:00 ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) 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 ` Simon Wright
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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