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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 10:58:22 +0300
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On 18-05-11 04:32 , gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
> It's very kind from everybody here to think about deployment and
> other aspects of the CBSG.

At least on my part, CBSG is only being used as an example or starting 
point for discussing when it is practical or impractical to embed a DSL 
in Ada, compared to implementing an Ada interpreter for DSL text read in 
at Ada run-time.

> Actually the compile time (a few seconds
> on a "normal" machine) is perfectly fine for something that is
> updated a small number of times a year.

Indeed. The discussion hypothetically assumed much more frequent updates.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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