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: 103376,84bf0ec36cf20893 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-14 07:26:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? Date: 14 May 2002 09:25:12 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1021386316 11341 192.135.80.34 (14 May 2002 14:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24022 Date: 2002-05-14T09:25:12-06:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > James Ross wrote in message news:... >> We have JavaScript and VBScript ... >> >> And then there is Perl, Python, ... etc. >> >> If someone where to create a type-less and interpreted variant of the >> Ada language, that for all practical purposes was Ada syntax / rules >> without the strong typing -- would that be a useful or worthwhile >> thing to do? Or would it be just obfuscating what Ada is all about? >> >> JR > > One would hazard a guess from the above that someone thinks that > JavaScript has something to do with Java. Why would anyone > possibly think that :-) :-) Obviously they are related from my viewpoint. Both are used in mobile code to exploit security vulnerabilities.