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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:51:38 -0400
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Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> And how long does it take? Adding a trace - recompiling - getting the
> answer is less than one minute (and I don't have an especially fast
> machine!). That's my whole point. I never said that debuggers were
> useless, and I certainly happen to use one every now and then. But most
> of the time, I find adding a trace faster, for the kind of program I'm
> writing.

Sounds like we're in violent agreement.  ;-)

> Of course, a great help here is that if you modify a body in Ada, you
> just need to recompile that body...

That's true of many languages.  It's certainly true in C.
It's even true in Java, if you follow the common practise
where "Java interface" corresponds to "Ada spec", and "Java class"
corresponds to "Ada body".

And languages that commonly have incremental compilers
(Lisp, Smalltalk, ...) do even better in this regard.
Not that I'm a big fan of those languages overall...

- Bob