Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada95@earthlink.net>]

Per Sandbergs wrote:
> 
> We have tried evrything (having projects that lasts for 10 or more years)
> and the only two things that survives for a while is Ada-code provided that
> ther is a consistent set of libraries and while on the same platform the
> native shell which in the Win32 case happend to be ".bat" files or on AIX
> korrn-shell.
> 
> This means that we are looking more and more on Ada as long term "scripting"
> language.

I've used Ada as a scripting language on more than one occasion as
well.  One tool I found invaluable in support of this is James Rogers'
Ada binding to pipes (http://www.adapower.com/reuse/pipes.html).  At its
simplest, you can use it to execute a system command, then read in and
process the result of executing that command as if it were a text file. 
Makes Ada-based scripting very simple (and Pipes works on both Unix and
Windows).

Marc A. Criley
Consultant
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com