From: epstein@trwacs.UUCP (Jeremy Epstein)
Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
Date: 27 Feb 90 18:55:08 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <184@trwacs.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5563@crdgw1.crd.ge.com
[I promised myself I wouldn't join this grudge match, but...]
In article <5563@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
> In article <204@puma.ge.com> jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon) writes:
> Or even worse, I think, is the use of {} for many different kinds
> of block statements. In Ada I end a loop with end loop; I end
> an if with end if;
While that's certainly true, look at how Ada overloads symbols. For
example, parentheses are used for parameters as well as subscripts
(that's something that totally confuses me as an old-time C programmer).
And while we're on the subject of Ada "end", why is it that Ada sometimes
uses "end" to match "begin", and other times to match other keywords?
--
Jeremy Epstein
epstein@trwacs.uu.net
TRW Systems Division
703-876-4202
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-02-20 16:13 Reasons for dropping Ada Ted Holden
1990-02-20 21:04 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1990-02-20 23:03 ` Reasons for keeping Ada David Kassover
1990-02-21 0:40 ` Clement Pellerin
1990-02-21 19:02 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-22 16:07 ` Mike Coffin
1990-02-22 17:01 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-02-22 21:51 ` Barry Margolin
1990-02-23 19:34 ` Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-25 19:58 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 12:45 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 18:28 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 20:55 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 22:00 ` David Kassover
1990-02-27 18:55 ` Jeremy Epstein [this message]
1990-02-28 1:19 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-02-28 18:56 ` Ada functions versus arrays (i.e. () vs [] ) Richard A Hammond
1990-03-01 3:25 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-03-01 13:11 ` Robert Firth
1990-03-02 10:56 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-02 23:46 ` Scott Simpson
1990-03-02 10:42 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-06 19:13 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-08 14:21 ` John Goodenough
1990-03-14 18:19 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) RCAPENER
1990-03-01 0:29 ` David Kassover
1990-03-01 15:11 ` Steve Tynor
1990-03-01 18:29 ` David Kassover
1990-03-02 0:19 ` Robert D. Houk
1990-02-28 19:51 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-02-20 22:21 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Jeffrey M. Schweiger
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