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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> Yes, Ada favors readability over writability.

I find when trying to study a codebase, having the code spread across
too many files seriously impairs readability.  That problem is worst
with Java, which puts each class (even small ones) in a separate file.

ML also does have a separate specification languate (the "module
language") and implementation language, I mean really, not like the
crappy .h system of C++.  But I think it is ok (i.e. acceptable though
not universal practice in ML) to put both the interface spec and the
implementation in the same file.  I don't see what is wrong with the
idea of doing the same thing in Ada.