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-Thread: 103376,9df2768f19ef857b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.arglkargh.de!news.snowkitty.org!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:39:36 +0100 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugin.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1138012778 31335 156.148.71.67 (23 Jan 2006 10:39:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:39:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZvZkWR+jiC4VGbJ9vtBlhG8/N8Y= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2585 Date: 2006-01-23T11:39:36+01:00 List-Id: pnkflyd831@gmail.com writes: > Does anyone have any statistics on the Expressive Power of Ada in > terms of lines of Ada code to lines of Assembly code? This is of course one possible measure of expressive power, but I am tempted to claim that it is a very incomplete measyre of expressive power. Isn't the ability to express that something doesn't have to be done to get the result even more valuable, than the ability to express that it has to be done, even if it really doesn't? I am specifically thinking of implicit and explicit range checks, but there may be other similar cases. Or is this really covered by the a simple source-to-assembly line ratio? Greetings, Jacob -- �Verbing weirds language.� -- Calvin