As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
Larry WallWe can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry WallThe random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
Larry Wall