From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/07
Date: 1999-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Mar7.074102.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7btj81$j0d$1@remarQ.com
In article <7btj81$j0d$1@remarQ.com>, "Michael Young" <nobody@all.org> writes:
> There are many good things to be said about strong typing. I fail to see
> your point, however, in comparing type safety in C to that in Ada. A
> more appropriate comparison would be Ada to C++.
I believe Ada folk draw comparison to the languages in which people
end up programming, rather than what it says on the compiler box.
While those participating in this forum may be atypical, there is
a belief that most of those with a C++ compiler are programming in
C. In that sense, this backward compatibility may be the greatest
technical weakness of C++, as well as its greatest marketing strength
(selling lots of licenses to people who don't really use the features).
> While I'm not especially fond of the old SDK, its structure looks
> surprisingly like object use in Ada today. Instead of the more succinct
> C++/Java style aWindow.GetDC(), we see GetDC(aWindow).
I am not sure how one views the first as more succinct, but my own
feelings are more swayed by type-safety than syntax.
> Anyway, I'm not sure which you were bashing: C in its infancy, or the
> old SDK. Both were laudable in their days. I expect I might say the same
> of Ada95 in some not so distant future.
If you think the days of that SDK are over, I think you are quite
mistaken. The "latest released" is not at all equivalent to "what
people use".
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-02 0:00 Linux World Richard D Riehle
1999-03-02 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable " David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World (Correction) Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-09 0:00 ` billy
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` bob
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
[not found] ` <7 <7c58qa$b6b$1@cf01.edf.fr>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <7c4ru6$e45$1@remarq.com>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <1999Mar9.131659. <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Dave Taylor
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Bruce or Tracy
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