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: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169588206.234714.312650@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1169624573.534128.172610@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <4EBuh.15104$pQ3.9387@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net> <45bb4e53$1_4@news.bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1170003986 12.201.97.213 (Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:06:26 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:06:26 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:06:26 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8648 Date: 2007-01-28T17:06:26+00:00 List-Id: Charles D Hixson wrote: > > As shown by the silly mistake that I made in C, it's not my favorite > language. But when I compare a book on expert systems written in C and > one written in Ada (well, Ada83), the book in Ada is both thicker and > has more pages devoted to code than the book in C, and the expert > systems are approximately of equivalent power (i.e., toy systems). > Well, the type size is a trifle larger, and the paper a bit thicker...so > the comparison isn't quite as straightforward as I'm making it out, but > basically Ada83 appears to take approx 1.5 times as many lines to do the > same thing. (I didn't count the lines. It's a rough estimate. Say > somewhere between 1.1 and 1.9 times as many lines.) Possibly this is a > comment on the skills of the authors, but the number of extensive > comparisons I've encountered is very limited. (Or maybe it's a comment > on Ada83, and doesn't apply to Ada95.) That's a good thing. Ada emphasizes ease of reading over ease of writing, since code is read far more often than it is written. C's emphasis is the opposite. -- Jeff Carter "All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside, so we can check." Bananas 29