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From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: 19 Jul 2001 17:10:16 GMT
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In article <3B59CD72@MailAndNews.com>, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>>- less freely available real-world example code
> 
> I won't need a complete Linux Kernel written in Ada to get familiar with
> the language.

Well, at least some AdaApache ...

>>- very verbose syntax
> 
> That's what I like in Ada. You see the code. You read the code. You see what 
> it does. You understand it.
> 
> I find "A := A mod 100;" much more readable than "A%=100;"
> 
> It says what it does, even if you don't know almost nothing about the
> language. Is that a negative? You can read and _understand_ the code even if
> you don't read the comments if some there are at all[*]. The problem seems
> to be that most programmers are lazy when writing code. OTOH, they then wish
> their colleagues to hell when they have to maintain the code until they 
> realize
> that it was their own code. :)
> 
> [*] I understand that most Ada programmers probably have a better style in
> code documentation anyway. So that's not really a point. :)

I don't care if someone who don't know the language can read it.

`operator=' improves readability if left side is non-trivial.

Example:
A->foo[1].start.x = A->foo[1].start.x % 640;
A->foo[1].start.x %= 640;

>>- no printf or equivalent
> 
> Oohooh. You don't really need a debugger. ;-)

It's not for debugging.
printf-like functions take much, much less code than Ada Text_IO.

> BTW, printf() almost never does what it looks like.
> 
>   printf("The value is %l", some_value);
> 
> Quite correct C, IIRC. Are you sure, if it gives you the correct result?

There's no such formant `%l'.
Compiler (at least gcc) warns when you screw formants.