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

[Dan Cross]

In article <t2navi$sdf$2 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>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.

Indeed.  Rust forces you to think similarly.

>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.

That's a feature I would very much like to have.

	- Dan C.