Re: What would you like in Ada202X?

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 04/25/2012 02:47 AM, Martin wrote:
> Ok, we don't officially have Ada2012 yet but as no new features are going to be added to it, now
 >seems like a good time to start thinking about the next revision.
>
> My starters for 10 are:
>
> 1) 1st class functions / lambdas
> 2) parallel loops / functions
> 3) Multiple dispatch
>
> -- Martin

I do not think Ada needs more language lawyers adding more fancy things 
to it :)

What Ada needs is more user libraries for all sorts of things. More 
bindings, and such.

Use the energy and the effort on these issues, enough making the 
language more complicated. If I wanted a complicated language, there is 
always c++11 :)

Ada for me is like a solid foundation sitting on a solid
rock but does not have enough materials and enough crew needed to build 
high rise buildings on these foundations.

While other languages, with much weaker foundations and sit on much 
weaker soil, have plenty of material and lots of crew to build lots of 
high rise buildings (buildings which always seem to shake, crack easily, 
and sometimes fall).

Ada's foundation are very solid. What it needs is the materials to use 
to build on top of this foundations, otherwise, it will always remain 
just a very strong foundation, but with few buildings on top of it.

--Nasser