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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:30:03 -0500
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On 7/10/2014 1:18 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

>
> One thing that can be done is concentrate on things that are unique
> or done much better in Ada.

Also things that can be done in more clear way. I like browsing
http://rosettacode.org sometimes and compare how different languages
do somethings. For example, looking at

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Address_of_a_variable
"Demonstrate how to get the address of a variable and how to set the address of a variable"

Ada way:
----------
The_Address : System.Address;
I : Integer;
The_Address := I'Address;     -- read
for I'Address use 16#A100#;  --- set
--------------------

C++ way:
-----------
int i;
void* address_of_i = &i;

"While C++ doesn't directly support putting a variable
at a given address, the same effect can be achieved by
creating a reference to that address: "

int& i = *(int*)0xA100;
----------------------

Anyone looking at the above 2 examples, can see that Ada is much
more clear. Actually anyone who does not even know Ada can
understand what the code does. Try that with the C++ version!

--Nasser