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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.122.145 with SMTP id a139mr5633257itc.7.1507081893430; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:51:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.13.131 with SMTP id 3mr297979ots.20.1507081893388; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!v62no3840748itd.0!news-out.google.com!194ni6197itf.0!nntp.google.com!v62no3844275itd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 18:51:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6ce1dce6-9339-45d8-89ec-1106a4f0f0d4@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:18f:900:f900:453d:87a5:de7c:1786; posting-account=3pYsyQoAAACcI-ym7XtMOI2PDU8gRZS5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:18f:900:f900:453d:87a5:de7c:1786 References: <6ce1dce6-9339-45d8-89ec-1106a4f0f0d4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <961d9258-9a62-4b66-9bab-11cf88f2f467@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Why does Ada compile slower than Python? From: Andrew Shvets Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 01:51:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48333 Date: 2017-10-03T18:51:33-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 8:21:59 PM UTC-4, Mace Ayres wrote: > That=E2=80=99s really hard to answer because Ada and Python are so simila= r. That=E2=80=99s what the instrtuctor told me in my 5 day Python boot camp= that promised to get me a high paying job in Silicon Valley. I had thought= they were different when I learned that Ada software is used in industrial= class systems, say Boeing Aircraft, NASA, General Electric and like, and e= mbedded systems that must be reliable, safe, etc. and simultaneously saw my= little 8 year old brother programming a PacMan liked game in Python on his= plastic lap stop while sitting on this bed, after teaching himself one mor= ning. Mace Ayres, how are Python and Ada similar? I've written code in both and = to me they are night and day. As great of a language that Python is, I wou= ld not use it to write code for an airplane. And if I needed a small scrip= t to automate some tasks, Ada would be the last thing on my mind. In what way are they similar?