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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:50:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Kevin Cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote:
: Are you really claiming that you can think of:
: 
:  procedure Insert (Word : in String) is
: 
:      procedure Increment_Count
:        (K : in     String;
:         N : in out Natural) is
: 
:         pragma Warnings (Off, K);
:      begin
:         N := N + 1;
:      end Increment_Count;
: 
:      C : Wordcount_Maps.Cursor;
:      B : Boolean;
: 
:   begin -- Insert
:      Insert (M, Word, 0, C, B);
:      Update_Element (C, Increment_Count'Access);
:   end Insert;
: 
: As quickly as I can think of: 
:  ++concordance[word] 
: or
:  ++$count{$word} ?

Isn't the comparison at different levels? AI 302 is to be minimal, I think, 
in that every convenient operation can be built from thingies present in
Ada.Containers.

 
: Multiply this 1000 times for a medium to large program and I think Ada
: really suffer from unnecessary verbosity.

Are you saying that Ada programmers automatically don't make reusable
procudures and instead will repeat a procedure with the effect of ++ all
over the place?


-- Georg