Re: Ada Annoyances

[darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 11:18:26 PM UTC, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 6/28/2017 3:50 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> > OOP seems to me to be incompatible with strong typing. I'd rather say
> > goodbye to OOP than to strong typing, but YMMV.
> > 
> >                                    Randy.
> > 
> 
> May be this is vindication that Niklaus Wirth was right
> after all with his Language Pascal?  Strong typing, and
> without OOP. Pascal Was perfect language for learning and
> teaching also.
> 
>        Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
> 
> Is all what was needed, and I still think that is true today.
> 
> Ada initially was almost like this when it came out and it
> had no OOP, but Ada became much more complicated and complex with
> time, adding more stuff to it including OOP.
> 
> One now needs almost a PhD in computer science and compiler theory
> to fully understand and learn big languages like Ada and C++.
> 
> --Nasser

I don't think that Ada is that complicated - at least not from user's perspective. Modern languages tend to be bigger than old ones due to the size and scope of problems solved today. Back in the days 20M lines of code was unimagineable, nowadays there are more and more projects that cross this line. Beside it is not like Ada forces you to use tagged types or OOP.

darkestkhan