Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?

[EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 11:12:54 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "EGarrulo" wrote in message 
> >boilerplate code, and this is one such case.  Let's add the lack of a 
> >facility like "printf",
> 
> Not strongly typed.

What do you mean?  Common Lisp has FORMAT and it is as strongly typed as they can be.

> >along with a generic type system that can't perform basic type inference,
> 
> Would have to weaken the type system.

Do you mean that the compiler is not able to infer the type referenced by the access type in `Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation` because that would weaken the type system?

> > and I am beginning to understand why engineers opposed the adoption of Ada
> > by the US Department of Defense.
> 
> Ada is not for people that want to write quick sloppy code (and then debug 
> it for months).

Wanting to write sloppy code and wanting to write only what is necessary are two different attitudes, don't you agree?

> Besides, the C++ generics that you are implicitly referring 
> to didn't exist until long after Ada was designed. And they do things which 
> would destroy the Ada contract model of generics (in C++, generics are 
> glorified macros).

Ada generics are fine -- I see no difference in expressiveness versus C++, really -- but the standard library doesn't seem to make the most of them.

Generics *are* glorified macros anyway, in a sense.