From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:22:27 -0600
Date: 2008-01-07T20:22:27-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <flumpa$1eg$1@jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: agyaras-50CE35.10341806012008@news.inode.at
"Agyaras" <agyaras@kerekerdoe.hu> wrote in message
news:agyaras-50CE35.10341806012008@news.inode.at...
> In article <1199452391.7932.27.camel@K72>,
...
> The problem for many people starts earlier. Consider these two programs:-
>
> -- Ada (221 chars)
> with Ada.Strings.Unbounded, Ada.Text_IO.Unbounded_IO;
> use Ada.Strings.Unbounded, Ada.Text_IO.Unbounded_IO;
>
> procedure str is
> Strg: Unbounded_String := To_Unbounded_String("ergonomy");
> begin
> Put_Line(Strg);
> end str;
Boy, that's sure a long-winded way to write this. I'd write something like
this:
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Str is
Strg : String := "ergonomy";
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Strg);
end Str;
I didn't count the characters, but it's surely a lot shorter than the
original version.
Moral: Don't even think about using Unbounded_String unless you have to; the
native strings of Ada are quite powerful. I've found that Unbounded_String
is more work than it is worth about 80% of the time. Ada is surely wordy
when that 20% comes up (especially for those of use who rarely use use
clauses), but that is about the least important attribute of a programming
language.
Moral2: Writing C++ code in Ada is rather likely to make lousy Ada code (I'm
sure the reverse is true, too.)
Randy.
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2007-12-29 3:06 The future of Ada is at risk Rico Secada
2007-12-29 10:19 ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-29 19:24 ` Jerry van Dijk
2007-12-29 11:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-29 11:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-30 12:30 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-30 19:42 ` okellogg
2007-12-30 20:22 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-31 0:21 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-30 23:30 ` Simon Wright
2007-12-31 8:12 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-31 8:43 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-31 10:16 ` Rico Secada
2007-12-31 10:31 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-31 15:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-31 21:35 ` Paul
2008-01-01 12:41 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-29 16:19 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-29 16:24 ` anon
2007-12-29 19:16 ` Rico Secada
2007-12-30 0:38 ` The future of C# " Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-07 8:01 ` The future of Ada " Nasser Abbasi
2008-01-07 11:09 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-07 11:54 ` Nasser Abbasi
2007-12-30 8:04 ` Phaedrus
2007-12-30 8:56 ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-30 21:42 ` Phaedrus
2007-12-30 23:08 ` Brian May
2007-12-30 23:32 ` Phaedrus
2007-12-31 12:33 ` I. Levashew
2008-01-02 10:46 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2007-12-30 11:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-30 22:23 ` Phaedrus
2007-12-30 21:30 ` adaworks
2007-12-30 23:33 ` Phaedrus
2007-12-31 0:33 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-01-01 14:14 ` Gautier
2008-01-01 14:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-04 8:45 ` Agyaras
2008-01-04 9:36 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-04 13:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-06 9:34 ` Agyaras
2008-01-06 10:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-06 12:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-06 13:03 ` Frank J. Lhota
2008-01-07 3:46 ` Brian May
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2008-01-04 23:17 ` Brian May
2008-01-05 10:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-01-05 15:16 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-05 15:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-05 15:46 ` Robert A Duff
2008-01-05 16:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-05 17:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2008-01-05 10:21 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-05 10:30 ` Ludovic Brenta
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2008-01-05 13:32 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-05 20:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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2008-01-05 23:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-01-05 11:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2008-01-05 23:47 ` Brian May
2008-01-06 7:03 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-01-06 8:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-01-06 12:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2008-01-06 20:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2008-01-06 22:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-07 0:11 ` Brian May
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2008-01-08 0:04 ` Brian May
2008-01-08 6:53 ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 14:35 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-01-08 20:24 ` Graham
2008-01-08 20:44 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-06 9:23 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-07 0:05 ` Brian May
2008-01-05 20:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-01-05 20:52 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-05 21:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-05 23:45 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-01-06 11:16 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-06 19:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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2008-01-07 10:23 ` Stephen Leake
2008-01-07 17:54 ` Michael Bode
2008-01-11 7:21 ` Phaedrus
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2008-01-11 13:10 ` Peter C. Chapin
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2008-01-12 14:31 ` Surfer
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2008-01-11 21:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-11 13:02 ` framefritti
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2008-01-11 18:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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2008-01-12 10:11 ` Brian May
2008-01-12 10:24 ` Pascal Obry
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2008-01-12 22:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2008-01-13 14:05 ` (see below)
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2008-01-14 1:49 ` Ray Blaak
2008-01-23 2:52 ` adaworks
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2008-01-11 22:32 ` Robert A Duff
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