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Ada has a lot of cool stuff going for it. I liked the type system well enough and a well written Ada program is very easy to read. My problem with it was I alwa
by lanestp 10y ago
Ada has a lot of cool stuff going for it. I liked the type system well enough and a well written Ada program is very easy to read. My problem with it was I always had trouble with the stuff like
while ... loop
if ... then
case ... is
The number of times that a program failed to compile because I got the magic words wrong drove me nuts! The author is bang on in the comparison to C which despite its flaws is very internally consistent.
- PeCaN 10y agoI agree. I've thought of writing a CoffeeScript-for-Ada thing with slightly nicer syntax. (I don't dislike Ada's syntax, but it's occasionally quirkier than necessary.) That said, its easy range types and discriminated unions make writing C-level code SO much nicer.
- david-given 10y agoThere's actually sense to the magic words. Each word which opens a block has a unique word which ends the block. So, begin..end, if..end if, loop..end loop, etc. The advantage of this is that it's much harder to screw up block terminations --- one thing I've done many times in C is when closing a chain of blocks with: } } } do_something(); } } is to miscount the braces and put do_something() in the wrong place. In Ada, that'd be: end if; end; end case; do_something(); end loop; end; ...which is far more meaningful.
- user12357z7 10y agoYou should read about how to write clean code... (instead of switching to another programming language)
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- flukus 10y agoThat sounds like the cyclomatic complexity is too high.