From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4d3e59455e947c5e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.77.39 with SMTP id p7mr1551441paw.0.1344324851291; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: g9ni3187775pbo.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ctu-peer!ctu-gate!news.nctu.edu.tw!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0d6f6a4f-f0d7-4376-a400-bd2b287519f9@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.16.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343664461 5205 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2012 16:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:07:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.53.16.194; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-30T09:05:34-07:00 List-Id: Ada is in the same league in terms of executable size and speed to C. the wikipedia book has a section on why hello world is so big, there are some things required to bring the size down and the computer language shootout has Ada clocked