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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types
  extensions)
Date: 2000/02/04
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Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> writes:

> 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've seen way too much long-lived software written in Perl, csh, awk,
make, etc.

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.

- Bob