Re: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

M�rio Amado Alves wrote:
> Now balance this with the cons:
> 
> - longer ARM, or

If the IO packages all have the same "shape"
then they should not require a lot of extra
text.

I see no point in having several pages that
are identical except for part of the type name.
(There's already too much of that in the child
packages of Ada.Text_IO and in Wide_String routines
repeating the text for String routines.)

If they don't have the same "shape" then it
adds complexity to learning the language.

It always bugged me that IO for some data types is
Get() and Put() but for others it's Read() and Write().

-- 
Wes Groleau
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