Having 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,

Having 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.