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Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
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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:
>=20
> > OOP seems to me to be incompatible with strong typing. I'd rather say
> > goodbye to OOP than to strong typing, but YMMV.
> >=20
> >                                    Randy.
> >=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
>        Algorithms + Data Structures =3D Programs
>=20
> Is all what was needed, and I still think that is true today.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> One now needs almost a PhD in computer science and compiler theory
> to fully understand and learn big languages like Ada and C++.
>=20
> --Nasser

I don't think that Ada is that complicated - at least not from user's persp=
ective. Modern languages tend to be bigger than old ones due to the size an=
d scope of problems solved today. Back in the days 20M lines of code was un=
imagineable, 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