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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:09:26 -0400
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message >
> Syntax is core to the language.

True.

>So it should not be
> unnecessarily overloaded.

Of course--please show how Ada is unnecessarily overloaded.  That was your
unsupported implication wasn't it?

>Libraries can be learned
> in specialized variations, as needed.

But then you can have competing and inconsistent libraries which is an issue
raised before that you failed to address.

>But every
> programmer needs to know the syntax.

A programmer only needs to know enough syntax of a language to be an
effective developer.

>(Should anyway;
> if people are chunking the language syntax so
> their programmers can get their heads around it,
> I think the syntax is too complex.)

You must realize that most languages fail this test since programmers often
only learn a subset of the language that they find useful.  If you are to
take your view seriously, then you will most likely have to declare all
languages too complex.