Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary

[Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>]

> > As a proponent of Ada and a friend of Java, let me say that IMHO it is
> > not the ease of use of the Java predefined environment that makes
> > people happy.  (I assume you mean both that and the APIs that are
> > continually being added.)  The language itself is rather underpowered;
> > hence the environment and the APIs are less than they could otherwise
> > be.  Rather, it is the *extent* of these APIs that makes the
> > difference.

That, and the fact that the code looks like C.

> I have to agree with Pat here. The language defined one other feature
> supporting a large and evolving list of APIs. That is the Javadoc tool.
> This tool allows decent (not great) documentation of Java APIs in a
> consistent HTML format from comments in the Java code.

By being being disciplined enough to add comments in a specific format
and running a special tool, one can generate documentation that is
potential equal to, and if you really work at it, even better than a
well-written Ada specification is without comments.  Not a selling point
in my book.

This thread sure forgot about comparing Eiffel and Ada rather quickly.

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Wes Groleau for President of the U.S.A.
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