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    From Tristan Wibberley@tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk to comp.lang.ada on Tue Oct 28 19:51:38 2025
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    What are the biggest problems you've noticed with Ada and how would you
    avoid them or resolve them?

    How much better is Ada than other systems?

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  • From Kevin Chadwick@kc-usenet@chadwicks.me.uk to comp.lang.ada on Tue Oct 28 20:22:05 2025
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    On 28/10/2025 19:51, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
    What are the biggest problems you've noticed with Ada and how would you
    avoid them or resolve them?


    The biggest issue is that there is a fair bit to learn. Having said that
    Rational software found that experienced C devs thrown in to using Ada
    performed twice as well as with C.

    How much better is Ada than other systems?


    It is the best language that I have seen by far and SPARKs lowest modes are
    easy to apply and solve any potential initialisation issues without
    unnecessary initialisations.
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