From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-15 01:34:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news1.cableinet.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Gair Subject: Ada and pointers Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: User-Agent: KNode/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:19:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.31.154.203 X-Complaints-To: http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/abuse X-Trace: news1.cableinet.net 997859965 62.31.154.203 (Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:19:25 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:19:25 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11944 Date: 2001-08-15T07:19:25+00:00 List-Id: >> > Windows 98 ... a success of the pointer-to-buffer macro-assemblers. > >>Please don't blame assembler for Win98. And there is nothing wrong >>about using pointers to buffers. The trouble starts when you misuse >>them. > Pointers however are non-trivial and all programmers do not write perfect code all the time. This is one the reasons that ada is successful I believe, because it is possible to have as near as perfect code in a re-used package (especally that avl-tree-generic package) then reuse it in non-pointer code. > I don't blame assembler (it is of course necessary in some parts, > and generally carefully programmed), but over-used macro-assembler. > At a certain scale in a project one should have a rich typing, e.g. > arrays - the true ones, with bounds. > > G. > I think Ada is currently the best open source language of code because of this factor and information hiding.. Incidently I heard a statement by a colleague ten years ago saying pointers are not actually necessary in any construction of code no-matter the purpose because it had been mathematically proven so". A very strong statement.... has anyone heard of this or was it hot air, Regards Tony Gair