From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Dec 92 17:00:13 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc .ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3 539) Subject: Re: FORTRAN bug(was Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?) Message-ID: <1992Dec14.170013.18494@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In 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 >$ word >+ it >, - >/ is >@ language >~ without >============================== >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? -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.