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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: minyard at acm dot org
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 00 23:24:20 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Ada is a very complex language and one which is understood to that
> extent by very few people and those few people nearly all work for Ada
> compiler vendors. So I don't accept that putting GNAT sources in the
> repository will magically make such expertese appear.
I don't agree with this. After programming for 10 years in C, and
learning both Ada and C++, I found Ada easy to learn and not very
complex. Certainly much less complex than C++. Don't re-enforce the
FUD.
I'm talking about the complexity of a *compiler* for the language, not the
difficulty in programming in it: these are very different things and require
a different level of knowlege. Ada is at least as complex as C++, mostly
because some things that are left undefined in C++ are defined in Ada.