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On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 10:26:39 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Besides, if you're going to be writing Ada, you're going to be writing co=
de=20
> that's more verbose (in many ways) than C-family languages. It might take=
=20
> some getting used to, but there is no time better than the present to=20
> getting used to that.

I don't mind verbosity when it serves a purpose, but I have little toleranc=
e for boilerplate code, and this is one such case.  Let's add the lack of a=
 facility like "printf", along with a generic type system that can't perfor=
m basic type inference, and I am beginning to understand why engineers oppo=
sed the adoption of Ada by the US Department of Defense.  Requiring program=
mers to state their intentions explicitly is beneficial, but requiring prog=
rammers to "spoon-feed" the compiler and/or write bloated code is not.