Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <DAG.94Sep12082826@bellman.control.lth.se>,
Dag Bruck <dag@control.lth.se> wrote:
>[Robert Dewar writes]
>R> However, the great majority of people found it completely
>R> inpenetrable, and it clearly contributed to the demise of the
>R> language.
>
>Have you seen the Draft International Standard for Modula-2?
>
>If nothing else will kill Modula-2, this document will!  More
>seriously, the Modula-2 standard mixes natural language and VDM-SL (a
>formal specification language), and I think the mix is totally
>incomprehensible.  The last statement is of course also a statement on
>my level of education.
>
>By the way, the reference manual has grown from some 30 pages to about
>600 pages, and is bigger than the DIS for Ada 9X.
>

I recall the "bragging claim" for Modula-3 was that it not exceed 50
pages.  Hmm, let's see, if we remove spaces, examples, libraries,
implementation notes, cross-references, and reduce down to a 2-point
font, we ought to be able to do that too :-)

[Actually, a bit of trivia here (maybe not), the Ada 9X RM, sans
Annexes,is actually smaller than the C++ Annotated Ref Manual 
(which I consider roughly equivalent) ]

(for those of you looking to trash C++, this isn't a good metric --
both RM's take different approaches to describing features).

the closest equivalent)

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