From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:1cc6:b0:45d:a313:d2d with SMTP id g6-20020a0562141cc600b0045da3130d2dmr7486572qvd.127.1652517967270; Sat, 14 May 2022 01:46:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:44c1:0:b0:64a:94d7:6a5a with SMTP id r184-20020a2544c1000000b0064a94d76a5amr8654429yba.396.1652517967092; Sat, 14 May 2022 01:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 01:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.41.0.206; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.41.0.206 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <507c49ee-3874-477f-9b20-3396daa5d563n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Ruby and Ada From: mockturtle Injection-Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 08:46:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 1552 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63846 List-Id: As you can guess, my language of choice is Ada, but for small things (often= "fast and dirty") or to extract stuff from text files, I use Ruby which I = prefer over its direct competitor (much more popular) Python. Then I read this [1] > Its [of Ruby] creator, Yukihiro =E2=80=9CMatz=E2=80=9D Matsumoto, combine= d parts of his > favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) This could explain the affinity... (Matz is an Adaist! :-)) [1] https://dev.to/rodmatola/ruby-the-best-language-for-general-automation-= gh3