Re: A couple of quick questions

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:28:31 +0100, Dufr <dufriz@gmail.com> a écrit:

> One more question about Ada, if you don't mind. Ada has a reputation for  
> being "bloated" and have having too many features.

You may think of “Ada, a complex language for a complex world”. It comes  
with no more complexity than the real world has, and its “complexity” maps  
this only. That's not bloat, that's filling expectations.

A bloat is something unnecessary. Some things was made language‑native  
instead of library‑dependent (ex. tasking), and some of the  
language‑native things can hardly be provided by a library (ex. numeric  
ranges).

Bloats may also be seen when there are unnecessary multiple ways of doing  
one thing, and I don't believe Ada has too much of this (just a few).

By the way, bloats are more often encountered in libraries and  
applications than in languages (many of them claimed to be general  
purpose, suffering from over‑simplification, on the contrary).


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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University