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The claim that more verbose, with keywords instead of braces/symbols is more readable is, imho, very subjective. It's easy to state "code is read more often tha
by c-cube 6y ago
The claim that more verbose, with keywords instead of braces/symbols is more readable is, imho, very subjective. It's easy to state "code is read more often than it is written" and jump to conclusions from there with no evidence that Ada is actually more readable.
An alternative syntax could be helpful for Ada to gain more traction.
- wwright 6y agoThe “verbose syntax is good” stance seems to have been a lot more common back in 70s–80s language design, hence why I call it “old-fashioned” :-) not trying to make a judgement against the language (I personally love Cocoa-style method names, for example).