From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1096047954 8715 134.91.1.34 (24 Sep 2004 17:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:45:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4120 Date: 2004-09-24T17:45:54+00:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: :> 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? : : The insert procedure is not reusable. It is specific to : Wordcount_Maps. OK. But Insert is not the effect of ++, which is what is had been thinking about. : I took an example program : written by the author of Ada/CHARLES and rewrote it in C++ and Perl. : The C++ code was less than half as long, and the Perl code one-tenth : as long. Well, if it besides the reference issue all boils down to "shorter code is better", Ada is verbose, then I think I can stay with some verbosity. There are far too many neat idioms to remember once I have to use more than one or two languages every other day. -- Georg