[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-07, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <jb8ci7F6634U2 at mid.individual.net>,
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 4/7/22 10:55, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm old enough to remember that, as well.  Indeed, I read a
>>> pre-alpha Java spec and thought it was pretty nifty at the time.
>>> Then the snakeoil "Uncle Bob" types got a hold of it and it
>>> became a bloated mess.
>>
>>Congratulations.  You just described Ada.  :-)
>
> *rimshot*
>
> But in fairness to Ada, I'm pretty sure that the agile snakeoil
> folks would struggle mightily with it.  Have the likes of Robert
> C Martin ever actually delivered a large program?
>

Ada forces you to think about your design. I consider that to be
a good thing.

BTW, I wouldn't mind seeing Ada's ranged integers showing up elsewhere,
including being supported as an array index. That's a very nice feature
of Ada.

Simon.

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