Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

<<I don't agree with this.  After programming for 10 years in C, and
learning both Ada and C++, I found Ada easy to learn and not very
complex.  Certainly much less complex than C++.  Don't re-enforce the
FUD.
>>

YOu missed the point entirely, Richard was saying that the language is
very complex to implement, not to use!

Indeed, it is fair to compare it to C++ in this respect (I do not think
it is right to say that it is less complex than C++ from an implementation
point of view, I would say it is comparable in terms of the front end,
comparable in terms of the back end, and Ada is far more complex to
implement at runtime, especially if you include all the annexes.

Note that in practice there is not a huge number of people who make
subtle changes to the g++ front end.

Our experience is that we have had quite a few contributions over the
years from third parties, almost all in the tools and runtime, almost
none in the front end, and none at all in the complex parts of the
front end.