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I don't know why people think Ada is restrictive, it really isn't at all, at least, not since the Ada 95 revision (which added pointer-to-stack and pointer-to-function and OOP). It isn't even verbose, it's just communicative.


I think it comes from the following: Ada was designed to be robust against the average programmer. They prefer to "hack" around and have their program just compiling. Compared to, say, scripting languages Ada ist restrictive. I feel they dislike Haskell for the same reasons.

edit: most complains seem to come from strong typing and static type checking.




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