I think this is the death knell of most people trying to casually pick up Ada or most used-but-not-extremely-popular languages from the 70's and 80's, our expec

I think this is the death knell of most people trying to casually pick up Ada or most used-but-not-extremely-popular languages from the 70's and 80's, our expectation of doing something meaningful and sensible has just moved so far that not having the supporting libraries means a lot of upfront work. I think I've gotten stuck here for LISP, getting back into Pascal, Ada, and probably some other languages I wanted to experiment building a modest size application with. It really shows how valuable having that very active and mature core library or managed package library is to a language. I did the same learning path as the prior poster but then just ended up stuck.