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ADA is a stereotypical non-hacker language. It was invented by a DOD committee & requires a good deal of 'extra' fluff to write a program. Also, as I recall, t
by pnathan 15y ago
ADA is a stereotypical non-hacker language. It was invented by a DOD committee & requires a good deal of 'extra' fluff to write a program.
Also, as I recall, to be a certified ADA-compliant compiler requires having a ton of libraries.
- msbarnett 15y agoAda (not ADA) was largely the product of one man, Jean Ichbiah. The notion that it's some kind of commitee-created monstrosity seems largely to have come from ESR's wildly inaccurate writeup of it in the Hacker's Dictionary. It's actually a fairly small and nice language. The object oriented extensions didn't follow the "standard" Java "." syntax, though, which probably hurt Ada 95's uptake more than it should have.