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Subject: Re: Building the 2021 source release of GnatStudio
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On Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 8:37:51 AM UTC-6, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 29/07/2021 =C3=A0 12:37, Rod Kay a =C3=A9crit :=20
> > I guess the point I was trying to make was 'Why is GnatStudio using=20
> > Python at all, given that Ada is superior ?'.
> Python is useful for tailoring; by dropping a Python file in the=20
> appropriate directory, you can add any feature to GnatStudio (OK, it=20
> needs some XML too).=20
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> That's how AdaControl's integration works.=20
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I mean we could do that even easier with FORTH, and distribute the Ada impl=
ementation alongside it.
If you take a look at the implementation I have https://github.com/OneWinge=
dShark/Forth -- you'll observe that there's zero non-Ada portions of the pr=
ogram, all the core-words are given in terms of the VM:
https://github.com/OneWingedShark/Forth/blob/master/src/forth-vm-functions.=
ads
https://github.com/OneWingedShark/Forth/blob/master/src/forth-vm-functions.=
adb
https://github.com/OneWingedShark/Forth/blob/master/src/forth-vm-default_wo=
rds.adb
-- and thus we could achieve a completely portable interpreted system.

Having a fully compliant FORTH 2012 interpreter would be pretty nice in thi=
s respect, as FORTH is one of 21 ISO programming languages -- https://en.m.=
wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages_with_an_ISO_standard -- a=
nd only one of three which is traditionally interpreted (ECMAScript, ISLISP=
, FORTH). ISLISP *might* be a better technical choice than FORTH, but the s=
ame technique would work in implementing the portability; ECMAScript (aka J=
avaScript) would be the obvious choice if it were based on popularity.

TL;DR -- There's zero reason to include Python as a dependency in an IDE.