Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > > The Ada 2012 Language Reference Manual is 860 pages ... > Yeah, unfortunately the language was designed by a committee ... > It seems apt to describe the resulting design as “bulletproof”, but > “elegant” or “concise” ... not so much.
I'd say the Ada standardizers went to a great deal of trouble to specify and document stuff that other languages simply leave undefined, leaving developers relying on implementation-specific behavior that's not part of the standard. Ada itself is not necessarily more complicated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
