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Subject: Re: A couple of quick questions
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:41:22 +0100
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Le Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:28:31 +0100, Dufr <dufriz@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit=
:

> One more question about Ada, if you don't mind. Ada has a reputation f=
or  =

> being "bloated" and have having too many features.

You may think of =E2=80=9CAda, a complex language for a complex world=E2=
=80=9D. It comes  =

with no more complexity than the real world has, and its =E2=80=9Ccomple=
xity=E2=80=9D maps  =

this only. That's not bloat, that's filling expectations.

A bloat is something unnecessary. Some things was made language=E2=80=91=
native  =

instead of library=E2=80=91dependent (ex. tasking), and some of the  =

language=E2=80=91native things can hardly be provided by a library (ex. =
numeric  =

ranges).

Bloats may also be seen when there are unnecessary multiple ways of doin=
g  =

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=E2=80=91simplification, on the contrary).


-- =

=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