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From: Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH>
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
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robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <36D10384.CB4925C8@GoAway.com>,
>   Corvus <NoWay@GoAway.com> wrote:
> > More specifically:  What does it look like?
> > How would I write a "hello world" program in Ada?

> These two questions (what does it look like, and how do
> I write hello world) have almost nothing at all to do
> with one another.

> Ada is about writing large programs.

> Small programs have almost nothing to do with large
> programs. I remember someone from NASA once saying that
> studying small programs and thinking you are making
> progress on understanding how to write large programs is
> like NASA having an astronaut climb a tree -- well he's
> making progress, he is closer to the moon :-) :-)

To be clear: large programs, not small. If your program is 
less than 10'000 lines, some compilers will refuse to compile
it: "Error at line 9702: End-of-file found. No serious
usage of Ada. No object file produced; please add stuff
and retry.".
And try to hide identifiers like "Bitmap", "Mouse", too.

Gautier