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From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: 18 Jul 2001 02:03:55 GMT
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In article <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com>, codesavvy wrote:
> How come it is not more widely accepted?  The stuff I read here states
> that it is because the rest of the world is stupid.  From what I can
> tell there is plenty of crappy code written in Ada.  I think many who
> share the view that Ada is the best programming language offering
> significant advantages over other programming language might want to
> re-think their positions.

Well, this is a good question that I can't asnwer to.

What are absolute positives and negatives of Ada ?
Only practical ones of course, no "elegance" or "purity" ones,
and no military/embeded-only ones, please.

Some of negatives might be due to different design, and are only
negatives from mainstream languages programmer's point of view.

Comparised to mainstream (C/C++, Java and Perl) prefered.
You should compare to best of these three in compared field.

Which features do you think might be ported to mainstream languages
w/o much changes ?
Which of these negatives are fixable ?

Please append to this list and/or comment about these items:
+ better compile-time bug catching
+ garbage collection
+ no sigsegv
+ no pointer problems
+ nice way of making new types
- evil i/o model
- less freely available libraries
- less freely available real-world example code
- too strong typing
- can't tweak performance too much
- very verbose syntax
- no printf or equivalent