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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
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Le Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:18:20 +0200, darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com> =
a  =

=C3=A9crit:
> The only thing I can whine about in this regard is UTF8 support. But  =

> that is the case for C too. And for many other languages too.

Me too. And even if one don't enjoy UTF=E2=80=918 as in Ada 2012, UTF=E2=
=80=918 is easy  =

enough to implement in one's own best way (Unicode in the large is compl=
ex  =

and requires some amount of data, but UTF=E2=80=918/16 alone is very sim=
ple and  =

requires near to no data).

> But that is the case for C too. And for many other languages too.

Except C's lack of strong typing and opaque types does not help.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity