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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Why .ads as well as .adb?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:20:27 +0200
Date: 2019-06-05T11:20:27+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qd81gq$aej$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a902e41a-729d-4c00-8e3f-0cda1822a349@googlegroups.com>

Le 05/06/2019 à 10:28, Maciej Sobczak a écrit :
>> Ada strikes the critical balance between readability and
>> consiseness.
> Not in the perception of those who attempt to learn it. Ada has the
> reputation of being overly verbose and considering that such
> reputation comes from beginners after the initial contact with the
> language, it very likely comes exactly from the block delimiters.
> 

Yes, Ada favors readability over writability. Beginners who start typing
and never had to maintain something written a long time ago view this as
a defect.

Ada is for serious, long term engineering. The opinion of beginners is
less important than the opinion of long term maintainers.

But (sigh) this has to be explained over and over again...

-- 
J-P. Rosen
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-05  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-02  0:48 Why .ads as well as .adb? John Perry
2019-06-02  5:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-02  6:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-03  7:35   ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-03  7:57     ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-03 19:49       ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-04  8:03       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-03  8:13     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-03 19:51       ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-03 20:18         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-04  8:24       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-04  9:33         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-05  9:04           ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05 12:48             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-05 17:12               ` G. B.
2019-06-05 18:50                 ` Optikos
2019-06-05 22:57                   ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-04 22:28         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-05  8:28           ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05  9:20             ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2019-06-05  9:28               ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-05 10:11                 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-05 12:58                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05 14:28                     ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-06  7:34                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-06 19:51                         ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06 20:27                           ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-06 21:12                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06 21:17                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06 22:08                           ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-07  7:59                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-07 10:42                             ` alby.gamper
2019-06-07 16:59                               ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-07 14:10                             ` Brad Moore
2019-06-07 23:37                               ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-08  1:16                                 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-08  7:34                                   ` Simon Wright
2019-06-08 17:44                                 ` G.B.
2019-06-08 21:41                                 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-09  0:40                                   ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-09 18:56                                     ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-09 20:35                                       ` John Perry
2019-06-09 21:15                                         ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-09 22:37                                           ` John Perry
2019-06-10  9:01                                             ` Simon Wright
2019-06-10 13:15                                               ` Simon Wright
2019-06-10  9:22                                             ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-09 21:37                                         ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 22:40                                           ` John Perry
2019-06-10  9:07                                             ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 21:46                                         ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-10 17:11                                         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-08  4:57                             ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-08 23:57                               ` Optikos
2019-06-09  0:43                                 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-10  8:17                               ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-10 19:10                                 ` G.B.
2019-06-10 22:07                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-11  0:32                                   ` Optikos
2019-06-11 15:39                                     ` Brad Moore
2019-06-11 16:14                                       ` John Perry
2019-06-11 16:46                                         ` Shark8
2019-06-11 19:29                                           ` John Perry
2019-06-14  6:12                                             ` Brad Moore
2019-06-14 21:51                                               ` John Perry
2019-06-14 16:29                                             ` djakoogler
2019-06-11 18:19                                         ` joakimds
2019-06-11 15:49                                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-07  7:36                       ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-05 22:41                     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06  3:34             ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06  7:29               ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-06 15:30                 ` John Perry
2019-06-06 15:41                 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-06 19:42                 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06 16:37               ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-02  9:59 ` joakimds
2019-06-02 20:14 ` G.B.
2019-06-03 13:37 ` John Perry
2019-06-03 14:50   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-03 19:23     ` John Perry
2019-06-03 21:04       ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-03 18:51   ` Lucretia
2019-06-03 19:32     ` John Perry
2019-06-03 17:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-03 18:59   ` Lucretia
2019-06-03 19:29   ` John Perry
2019-06-03 20:00     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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