C.A.R. Hoare Quotes

I Have Been Giving The Best Of My Advice To This Project Since 1975. At First I Was Extremely Hopeful. The Original Objectives Of The Language Included Reliability, Readability Of Programs, Formality Of Language Definition, And Even Simplicity. Gradually These Objectives Have Been Sacrificed In Favor Of Power, Supposedly Achieved By A Plethora Of Features And Notational Conventions, Many Of Them Unnecessary And Some Of Them, Like Exception Handling, Even Dangerous ...
It Is Not Too Late! I Believe That By Careful Pruning Of The ADA Language, It Is Still Possible To Select A Very Powerful Subset That Would Be Reliable And Efficient In Implementation And Safe And Economic In Use. The Sponsors Of The Language Have Declared Unequivocally, However, That There Shall Be No Subsets. This Is The Strangest Paradox Of The Whole Strange Project. If You Want A Language With No Subsets, You Must Make It Small.

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