Re:Why Not Ada? (Score 1)

1) Ada was not designed by committee. The design team, led by a single person, did benefit from the reviews submitted by software practitioners worldwide. 2) It is not as huge as C++ or COBOL. In fact, it is designed around a few very good principles. These principles lead to a set of very rigorous rules for compiler development organized into thirteen fairly small chapters. 3)We can write very small programs or very large programs in Ada. Usually, it is used for large-scale projects where a team of developers must communicate effectively with each other rather than for one or two person projects. 4) Anyone who thinks the source code is, of necessity, verbose, simply has not read enough code. 5) The design goals of Ada are fairly straightforward. One of the most important is: the language design should allow a compiler to catch the maximum number of errors as early in the development process as possible. There are not very many languages with that design goal. Richard Riehle