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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Yongxiang Gao Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/16 Message-ID: <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 325654881 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.utexas.edu X-Trace: news.cs.utexas.edu 887663088 1048 gyx 128.83.144.75 Organization: cs.utexas.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > These five aspects are not only different, but mutually incompatible. For > example, these days, it is generally perceived that languages need to > be fairly feature rich (Ada 95, C++, Fortran 90, OO COBOL, ...) to be > simple to use. Even Java is pretty feature rich, especially if you include > its standard libraries. For a beginner, "rich" comes with "complex to use". > As for "hard to write a compiler for", Ada is no more difficult than > any of these other languages. These days the really hard part of any compiler > is doing a good job of optimizing the object code on modern > architectures, and this is about the same effort for any language. Who tells you "Ada is no more difficult than any of these other languages"? Do you know the stories of Ada implementation in the early 80's? > So I don't know if you can find the papers you are looking for, or what > you need them for, but papers that meet your criteria are likely to be > bogus. > > (if they exist:-) You're welcome to offer more constructive information. -- Home: 1633 Royal Crest, Apt.1146, Austin, TX 78741 Phone: 512-912-0291(H) 512-471-9790(O) Email: gyx@cs.utexas.edu Office: PAI 5.54 Homepage : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gyx