In message <pv76o.2574$yv....@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> The Ada 2012 Language Reference Manual is 860 pages and the Ada 2005 > LRM was 790 pages. The annotated versions are even longer > http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada12.html Yeah, unfortunately the language was designed by a committee which was trying to meet a specification laid down by another committee set up by the US military. It seems apt to describe the resulting design as “bulletproof”, but “elegant” or “concise” ... not so much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
