[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat May 12 21:29:58 EDT 2018


On 5/12/2018 9:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Ada was very much the PL/1 of the nineties, trying to be everything to everyone
> and not really satisfying anyone much.  And because it was so big, most
> programmers knew only a subset, and no two programmers seemed to know the
> same subset meaning they had trouble reading one another's code.

I am *not* that familiar with Ada.

But I have this feeling that Ada83 was a pretty good language
that grew into a monster with Ada95.

Arne






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