I haven’t used it in a while, so I don’t remember off the top of my head. I guess the main thing is the syntax is much more natural than C-likes. It can be wordy but the flip side is that it’s easier to read and decipher.
I don’t really think it has a future though. It was released in the 80s and suffers the same constraints from backwards compatibility as any other old language. Also it was intended to run on everything, so they limited the character set, which resulta in round brackets being the only brackets there are, which can lead to ambiguous code where for example you’re not sure if you’re accessing an array or calling a function that has the same name.
I really want a safe language that has actual nice syntax instead of some gibberish with lots of symbols, and Ada is the closest I’ve found, but she’s old and forgotten now.
First time I’m hearing about it. Any fun gimmicks?
I haven’t used it in a while, so I don’t remember off the top of my head. I guess the main thing is the syntax is much more natural than C-likes. It can be wordy but the flip side is that it’s easier to read and decipher.
I don’t really think it has a future though. It was released in the 80s and suffers the same constraints from backwards compatibility as any other old language. Also it was intended to run on everything, so they limited the character set, which resulta in round brackets being the only brackets there are, which can lead to ambiguous code where for example you’re not sure if you’re accessing an array or calling a function that has the same name.
I really want a safe language that has actual nice syntax instead of some gibberish with lots of symbols, and Ada is the closest I’ve found, but she’s old and forgotten now.