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On Sun, 10 May 2026 17:52:30 -0400
geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> gabbled:
>On 5/10/26 16:24, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:
>> Boltar@caprica.Universe wrote:
>> |---------------------------------------------|
>> |"You ever had to program in Ada? Its a PITA."|
>> |---------------------------------------------|
>> 
>> I disagree.
>> (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
>Its a PITA because you have to have it correct before it compiles, as 
>opposed to C++ where you don't.

Its a PITA because its long winded like Java, has the god awful pascal
style syntax, and far too many basic operations throw exceptions instead of 
simply returning success/failure values.