Re: C++ vs Ada for large project

[Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>]

>>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin J Hopps <kjhopps@mmm.com> writes:


>    Kevin> So let me see if understand you.  Less flexibility is better; rules
>    Kevin> are better than discipline; the more rules the better?

(Sarcasm mode On)
No, The fewer rules the better, discipline is better than rules, and the more 
flexibility the better. That's why compilers should never reject any code, there's no 
such thing as a compilation error, all programmers always write exactly what they mean, 
and no compiler-writer should ever dare think otherwise.
(Sarcasm Mode Off)

In summary, what you said sarcastically is often true. Make the language smart, so the 
poor benighted programmer can concentrate on the difficult tasks, rather than making 
the trivially easy so prone to error (hence difficult). I'd far rather be concentrating 
my limited time on deciding which AI method to use on the problem domain, than trying 
to trace the one mis-casting that's causing a coredump in 1.5 million LOCs.