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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.67.23.138 with SMTP id ia10mr45691780pad.18.1438253982488; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:59:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.47.68 with SMTP id l62mr661927qga.42.1438253982442; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f3no4861906igg.0!news-out.google.com!4ni83122qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z61no4148258qge.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:59:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5e6cb30b-5f8c-4fed-969e-3941315ecba0@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=178.212.31.133; posting-account=nuF4hQoAAADjc2KKS1rOkzxWWEmaDrvx NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.212.31.133 References: <877fq9uj6g.fsf@theworld.com> <65061686-5c8f-433b-9b11-9e228298158e@googlegroups.com> <87k2u96jms.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <06f8a6f9-d219-4d40-b9ac-8518e93839bd@googlegroups.com> <87y4io63jy.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <7a29d3e9-d1bd-4f4a-b1a6-14d3e1a83a4d@googlegroups.com> <87mvz36fen.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <2215b44f-8a89-47c6-a4c4-52b74d2dac45@googlegroups.com> <9e492c82-868d-43d3-a18a-38274400e337@googlegroups.com> <40184feb-4053-4ac3-8eaa-c3bd9cd8a77c@googlegroups.com> <10272577-945f-4682-85bc-8ad47f3653ae@googlegroups.com> <87si8i81k2.fsf@atmarama.net> <8076cbd0-2655-4c98-b70e-cb5f0c32e4ba@googlegroups.com> <5e6cb30b-5f8c-4fed-969e-3941315ecba0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <46b5d3cf-fcd9-4754-8b55-ce65a4f767b5@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else... From: darkestkhan Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:59:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27193 Date: 2015-07-30T03:59:42-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 12:38:43 PM UTC, EGarrulo wrote: > Why wouldn't Ada be good for hacking? The only drawback I can see > does not relate to the language itself, but to the lack of flexible > standard libraries. For example, in an experiment comparing the > productivity of some programming languages[1], and where Haskell > comes way ahead of the pack, authors note that "[...] the Haskell > prototype was most concise for three reasons: [...] (2) the use of > higher-order functions, and (3) the use of standard list-manipulating > primitives in the standard [library] Prelude." Ada supports higher- > order functions, but it has nothing like the standard library Prelude > in Haskell, or the STL in C++. And I find it ironic that Stepanov > wrote the original version of the C++ STL in Ada, but then it never > found its way into the Ada standard. Check Annex A in Ada Reference Manual. You got Ada.Containers.* for standard containers, Ada.Strings.* for string handling (also Unbounded_Strings), Ada.Numerics.*, etc. There are also Annexes C, D, F and G... (E is far too specific for distributed systems and usually not that much needed in day-to-day basis)