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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
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In article <7sqi8p$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
	dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) wrote:

>It's not a big thing. Occasionally you have to fit a program in a small
>space, like on a boot floppy. And it doesn't look good to have a small
>game - which could probably fit in under 4k with a brilliant enough
programmer
>- to be 3/4 of a megabyte. 

1) Ada is not at its best when designing code for little programs.
   It is definitely advantageous when creating large-scale software
   that involves a team of programmers.   C++, used correctly, also
   fits into that category.

2) Most Ada compilers create a program that includes a set of 
   instructions that act as a "run time environment."  The RTE
   supports a lot of execution time checking that is not typical
   of languages without an RTE.  You can optimize away a lot of]
   this code.

3) GNAT has a version called GNORT which has no RTE. This will
   produce smaller code, but then you must include all the checking
   through selection operations within your code.  Sometimes this
   is a good idea.  Sometimes it is not.

4) Toy programs are never an acceptable medium for measuring or 
   comparing programming languages or even development methods. If
   you decide to create a small program using object-oriented 
   programming, I will build it just as fast and just as well using
   ad hoc methods.  However, if we scale up the problem to a serious
   application, you will win in both understandability, maintainability,
   and completion of the job.  I, however, will win the prize for
   consumption of over-the-counter anodyne products.

Richard Riehle
http://www.adaworks.com