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Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:
> Languages like Ada and C++ can have a lot of overhead if used like one
> is writing a desktop application.  However, Ada (and C++) has a lot of
> those features at either no cost or almost no cost.

I meant overhead in terms of source code verbosity, not computer cycles.
E.g. a Python "hello world" program:

   print("hello, world")

the same thing in Ada is much more code.  If you look on rosettacode.org
the Ada examples are almost always much larger than the Python counterparts.