6 Aug
2008
6 Aug
'08
2:16 p.m.
Sean Conner wrote about Ada:
It's about the strongest of the
bondange-and-discipline languages out there,
Not really. C++ has far surpassed Ada in this regard. I routinely
compile C++ code from the net and discover that the latest version of
GCC has introduced new checks that cause the compilation to fail.
It used to be that C++ advocates called Ada a bloated,
design-by-committee language (neither of which is actually true), but
now the shoe is on the other foot. Yet C++ is still very popular.
and the overhead of doing a
"hello world" program is enough to turn off a great number of programmers
For just a "hello world" program, the sheer amount of source text to do
it is slightly more than C++, but for real-world programs there's not
much difference (IMHO, speaking as someone who has worked on both large
C++ code bases and large Ada code bases).
Eric