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roedog on June 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++11 and Ada 2012 - renaissance of native languag...

I've heard complaints about how tough it was to get ADA code to compile. I'm not sure if it was the language itself, or unfriendly tools and compiler warnings...

lbrandy on June 23, 2012 [–]

That's a feature.

Ada is a fairly strict language that allows for compilers to do a tremendous amount of static checks.

koenigdavidmj on June 24, 2012 | [–]

It has been said that this is the character of programming in Ada: if you can get the damn thing to compile, it works perfectly.

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