From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb2bc43e6f95a4fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 02:03:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: It's been a while... Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1054285438 20947 129.241.83.78 (30 May 2003 09:03:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38056 Date: 2003-05-30T09:03:58+00:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > Hi, > > I learned Ada at University around 1995 and I've been interested in > getting back into it. Now, I have a simple "hello" app and it is huge. > Now, I don't want to have a load of people telling me not to judge Ada on > the size, but I really want to know how to get the app size down. The app > is: What you should remember is that trying to tweak the hello app will not give you much. When you have made a bigger program you will see the effects of the various ways to get the size down. A real application doesn't get so big as one would think from the simple hello example. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/