Re: FORTRAN bug(was Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?)

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In <OBRY.92Dec11164203@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com> obry@flash.bellcore.com 
(Pascal Obry) writes:


>Fred,

>> Single character ones?  Probably not, but that just indicates that Ada
>> is incredibly more verbose than C.  One of the things I DISlike about
>> it, by the way.

>Why do you use english ?

Because it's what everyone else speaks?  If this is your defense of
Ada, it is a poor one.  If you want something that 'everybody can
read', you should be using COBOL.  It was designed with the idea in
mind that MANAGERS should be able to look at a program and tell what
it does without knowing the language. 

>( > @ - + / ~ $

>==============================
>Because I'am the only one to know this language I put below the dictionary :

>> this
>( try
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>, -
>/ is
>@ language
>~ without
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>I like Ada because you can *read* it. And this seem to be one of the most
>important thing about a language. With goods choices for the identifier, you
>can read an Ada progam like a text, you don't have to translate what you read.

Golly gee whiz, you have to actually KNOW THE LANGUAGE to read it.
Horrors!  Oddly enough, I expect anyone reading a program and
expecting to understand it to be able to read the language.  If you
hand somebody a bunch of Ada code, they're going to be able to read
and understand it?  Gee, how is that going to work?  They're going to
know what pragmas do, things like packages and generics, etc.?  I
don't THINK so.

>You write a program one time, but how many time you read it ?

As many times as I need to?  Why is this a problem?

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