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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: New Software Forum
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:35:19 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:00:48 +0200, Ingo Marks wrote:
> My first impression was that the Java code is clean and easy to read while 
> the Ada code looks much too "chatty". I think most unbiased readers would 
> think: "That's Ada? Oh how ugly! No thanks, I'll stay with Java.". 

What puzzels me though is :

with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar;

and then throughout:

   Start_Time   : Ada.Calendar.Time;
...
   End_Time := Ada.Calendar.Clock;

Why the use Ada.Calendar; if it is not used?

I think one can safly do:

with Ada.Text_Io; use Ada.Text_Io;

and then:

   Put_Line("Iteration" & Integer'Image(Num) &
            " Result:"  & Integer'Image(Result) &
            " Time:"    & Duration'Image(Elapsed_Time));

> Please don't misunderstand me: I reward your good work but I fear newcomers 
> won't understand why Ada is so chatty compared with Java and could 
> conclude: "When Ada code is so chatty Ada must be much more complicated 
> than Java".

I remember first time I saw Ada it reminded me of Pascal that we had to
use at the University (for the course everybody had to take in programming).
So I didn't like the way Ada looked and not knowing it's advantages and
thinking that C/C++/Java were the "only" languages I abandoned Ada. But
then some months later I reconsidered and the only regret I have is that
I should have discovered Ada earlier.

> I would recommend syntax highlighting of Ada code. Syntax highlighted Ada 

Yes! At least boldify the keywords.

Preben