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: furlos@alumni.rpi.edu (Steve Furlong) Subject: Ada's complexity Date: 1998/02/19 Message-ID: <6cgk8s$2on2@alumni.rpi.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326500066 References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >As for richness leading to complexity, that's misleading. For example, the >exception facility of Ada definitelty makes the language more complex from >the point of view of bothg implementation and definition, but it makes >*using* Ada to solve a problem that requires exception handling simpler, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >and it is this kind of sinmplicitly that is most important to programmers. Which would be, what, all programs? Ta, Steve Furlong