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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-19 09:46:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Ingo Marks Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:45:22 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBDD795.4060706@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com> <3CBFF8DB.74E04B3C@brighton.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1019234696 07 4147 M5K9TzZSSgYxpD 020419 16:44:56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 340020534592-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22788 Date: 2002-04-19T18:45:22+02:00 List-Id: John English wrote: > Hyman Rosen wrote: > > This figures. Java's Hashtable class (and more recent replacements > HashMap and TreeMap) takes a similar pounding; and hashes in Perl > are an absolute godsend. Amazing how much programmer time & effort > can be wasted in languages that don't have something like these. Perl has several nice features which makes it easy to write applications in short time with small effort. But I tell you from experience, it doesn't make it easy to maintain them! IMHO Perl (like APL) is a pretty "write-only" language ;-) When code reaches a "critical mass" of size then readibility and helpful features like range constrained data types (which AFAIK Perl and Java don't have) become much more important than the nice builtin-language features of Perl. Hence to clone these features in Ada is no wasted effort at all. On the contrary, it makes us able to used the so appreciated Perl and Java features in Ada too, in its much cleaner syntax. Regards, Ingo