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

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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.

Ada83 was a monster, it just grew into a bigger one.
--scott

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