> (Ada also commits to using many English language words where languages like C use symbols. SQL does this too. I'm not sold on the idea that this improves read

> (Ada also commits to using many English language words where languages like C use symbols. SQL does this too. I'm not sold on the idea that this improves readability. Of course, there's far more to Ada than the skin-deep matter of its wordy syntax.) Wasn't the hypothesis behind COBOL that this would allow managers to gain a certain level of understanding of the code? I find that it made COBOL code notoriously unreadable.