18 Nov
2024
18 Nov
'24
11 p.m.
G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At 2024-11-18T14:55:55-0000, Anton Shepelev wrote:
I have nothing against Ada myself, but was referring the popular
languages in demand on the market. I think Julia is harder than Ada.
Yes, big money makes things strive not for
excellence but for
accessibility and a low, if not negative, entry threshold.
I think that's an overgeneralization.
The Ada language, for example, drew much wariness and even criticism for
being funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, probably the most
profligate spender in the history of mankind,[1] and at the same time
was condemned for being too hard a language to grasp (too "big") and too
hard to write a compiler for.
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