Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?

[Hubert <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com>]

> My guess is that no Ada compiler ever could be "mainstream", because it's a
> software-engineering language, and 98% of developers aren't S/W engineers.

That is a point that I have been contemplating for a while now but in 
conjunction with Object Oriented Programming. When I look back at my 
career I realize that I became lazier and lazier in terms of designing 
before programming with the advent of OOP. I think OOP is designed to to 
just that: Give you a false sense of "naturalism" and "ease" because 
"objects are so natural to the way humans think" and "everything in 
nature is an object" etc.

And it's true. It is much easier to start with some C++ style objects 
and add some methods that operate on the data and then have some other 
objects call these methods and so on. Everything is easy. Up to a 
certain point. And then it is too late.

In my opinion OOP is a way to make people write programs who should not 
be writing programs. There is a reason that "agile software development" 
and "scrum" rose up in parallel with OOP. I am not a big fan of OOP 
although I am using it out of necessity because the software I'm working 
with is based on it.

Looking back, this should probably be in it's own post and not at the 
10th level of a post regarding licensing questions :)



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