[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2018 3:08 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/19/18 2:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/19/2018 2:39 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 12/19/18 2:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> There are two schools of thought on programming languages.
>>>>
>>>> There are those that prioritize the power of the language - it
>>>> should be possible to express even very complex logic in a
>>>> short and concise way.
>>>>
>>>> And there are those that prioritize simplicity of the
>>>> language - it should be possible for anybody with an
>>>> IQ over 90 to read and understand the code.
>>>>
>>>> Ada95 and Scala definitely seems to be designed
>>>> by people in the first category.
>>>
>>> I don't know about that.  Ada w3as used as an introductory
>>> language at Universities and that was back when the average
>>> incoming student hadn't seen a computer more advanced than
>>> a TRS-80 or Apple ][.  They had no problem grasping it and
>>> by their second year were writing rather complex programs
>>> with it.
>>
>> Ada95 or Ada83 ?
> 
> It was earlier than 1995 so I guess that makes it Ada83.
> But having worked with Ada from the beginning to the
> present, I don't think that makes as much difference
> as you seem to.

Ada95 is a much bigger language than Ada83.

And as with other language that got redesigned then
I believe that such a redesign is not as clean as it
would have been if it had been done so from the beginning.

Arne