Re: Various Language Architecture Questions

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

frankgerlach@gmail.com wrote:
 > Hello,
 > I am contemplating to create a new language, which is supposed to be as
 > fast as C++, but as safe as Java.


Others seem to have answered your immediate questions, but I would add 
the observation that in Ada it is far far far less necessary to be 
creating pointers to everything as is typically done in C/C++, et alia. 
CLA often gets questions like that from C/C++ programmers because 
they're so used to the necessity of pointers in order to get 
pass-by-reference behavior & deal with other language-specific issues.

Also, in a well designed Ada program (one in which you have given some 
thought to the types you create) it is far less necessary to do 
"casting" or other tactics to get one data object to look like another. 
This might be done frequently in other languages to achieve what Ada 
gets through generics and other language features. If you find yourself 
doing a lot of type conversions or Unchecked_Conversion calls in Ada, 
then its likely you are not using the language features properly and may 
be simply trying to write C code in Ada.

If you're interested in Ada, take time to learn it reasonably thoroughly 
because you don't simply want to write C code in Ada syntax.

MDC



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