Re: Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Ada

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2016-10-29, Coyo T Stormcaller <coyo@darkdna.net> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> In addition, Ada has the advantage of actually being readable.
>> 
>
> Looking over code examples, I do notice that I can immediately understand 
> what's going on in Ada, even if I have to guess at some of the conventions. 
> I want to say Python is very slightly more readable, but I'm not sure if 
> that's simply because I'm actually decent at Python, or if I was always able 
> to read Python before learning how to program in it.
>
> Both Python and Ada seem infinitely more readable than C, which is often 
> only readable with heavy commenting. I've gotten better at 
> reading/programming in C, but not all programs have lots of helpful comments 
> in the source code.

Actually, I was thinking about Rust when I said that which I find
to be more unreadable than C (and even C++).

On the plus side, at least Rust is more readable than TECO. :-)

My readable scale (left to right for readable to less readable):

Ada > C > C++ > Rust > TECO

(Knowledge of the last one is as the result of a certain career
development path and I don't expect you to know the language. :-))

Simon.

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