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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 325676786 Distribution: world References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Yongxiang Gao writes: > > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > be fairly feature rich (Ada 95, C++, Fortran 90, OO COBOL, ...) to be > > simple to use. Even Java is pretty feature rich, especially if you include > > its standard libraries. > > For a beginner, "rich" comes with "complex to use". That's not obvious. Indeed, it's probably false. > > As for "hard to write a compiler for", Ada is no more difficult than > > any of these other languages. These days the really hard part of any > > compiler is doing a good job of optimizing the object code on modern > > architectures, and this is about the same effort for any language. > > Who tells you "Ada is no more difficult than any of these other languages"? > Do you know the stories of Ada implementation in the early 80's? Those with any clue. BTW, Robert has been intimately involved in implementing several languages and is probably as familiar with the issues as anyone in the field. > > So I don't know if you can find the papers you are looking for, or what > > you need them for, but papers that meet your criteria are likely to be > > bogus. > > > > (if they exist:-) > > You're welcome to offer more constructive information. IMO, it was pretty much right on target. It may not have been what you wanted to hear, but hey, facts is facts. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd., Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari