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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326432612 References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> <34EB6579.C791152D@cs.utexas.edu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 887854199 21149 (None) 128.122.140.58 Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: << Could you do another literature search for me? I'm interested in papers that explain why Ada is an overly complex language, why it's a hard language to write a compiler for, and other problems with Ada. >> I would say that it is almost certain that the above words are written by someone looking to justify a decision they have already made. If someone had an open mind, they might say: "I am concerned as to whether Ada may be overly complex, or hard to compile. Can you do a literature search to see what has been written on this subject."