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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
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In article <9fa75d42.0304230439.55d28e70@posting.google.com>, softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) introduces the term "itsy-bitsy feature":

> Any itsy-bitsy feature *will* be found wonderful by somebody.
> 
> That's exactly the problem -- because there were so
> many itsy-bitsy features in Ada, a novice needed to
> learn all of them, because somebody somewhere finds
> it useful and it will be found in real-world code.

Most shops restrict their usage of Ada (or any language) to the needs
of their particular domain.  I do not believe I have ever used floating
point in Ada, and for the first 10 years I did not use tasking.  I had
no trouble skipping over those parts of the documentation.

> Having tons of features in auxiliary libraries
> in the "C" style make mastering the language much simpler
> by chunking the task of learning without complicating
> the syntax issues.

I am sorry you had trouble learning Ada syntax, but rest assured there
are many others who have had no such problem.