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The situation hasn't changed, ESR just flat-out never had a good read on Ada. You really cannot take the Jargon file seriously, its author's ignorances are glar
by msbarnett 7y ago
The situation hasn't changed, ESR just flat-out never had a good read on Ada. You really cannot take the Jargon file seriously, its author's ignorances are glaring and numerous.
Ada's "elphantine bulk" is smaller than many modern languages, and even some which the Jargon File praises, like Common Lisp. Its inter-process communication and exception handling functionality were relatively forward-thinking at the time and would look familiar to your average Java programmer.
- rodgerd 7y agoThe kindest thing one can say about esr is that he is not as clever as he thinks he is.
- jacques_chester 7y agoWhich is also the least kind thing.
- spc476 7y agoHaving learned Ada (or rather, taken a class that used Ada) back around 1990, at the time, it was a bloated monstrosity. It's just that over the past 30 years, C++ has bloated to such a size that it now dwarfs Ada (in my opinion). Now, at the time, I didn't mind Ada (I think I was the only one to not mind it in class), but learning it just after K&R C/ANSI C (C was just recently standardized), it did appear to have quite a bit more overhead than I was used to.