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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: "Stanley R. Allen" Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/19 Message-ID: <34EC6ED2.15FB@hso.link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326655595 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> <34EB6579.C791152D@cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > << Could you do another literature search for me? I'm interested in > papers that explain why Ada is an overly complex language, why it's > a hard language to write a compiler for, and other problems with Ada. > >> > > I would say that it is almost certain that the above words are written > by someone looking to justify a decision they have already made. Since Dr. Lin is a professor who publishes papers concerning his own favorite language (ZPL), I would guess that the real reason for the literature request is so that he can put line like this into some new paper he is writing: "ZPL is relatively easy to implement and use. It is well-documented that Ada is overly complex with numerous problems [4,7, 9, 12]." And so the assertion would be "proved" by the references. -- Stanley Allen mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com