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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b2bad1e85ca20475 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b3c19b1631bb558 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-30 12:35:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!novia!feeder.qis.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!eiffel.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Roger Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:19:50 +0000 Organization: Everything Eiffel Message-ID: <20001030201951.6DCE4875.NFL@localhost.local> References: <39DCB9E3.EAE8F426@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Reply-To: roger@eiffel.tm NNTP-Posting-Host: eiffel.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eiffel.demon.co.uk:158.152.16.28 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 972938049 nnrp-04:22056 NO-IDENT eiffel.demon.co.uk:158.152.16.28 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.eiffel:931 comp.lang.ada:1641 Date: 2000-10-30T20:19:50+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > Let X your favorite and Y the other (of Ada or Eiffel). What is > the one feature (if any) of Y that you wish was in X ? The one Ada feature that I wish was in Eiffel is safer numerics. For a language that cares about correctness, Eiffel is rather sloppy about things like arithmetic overflow. Regards, Roger -- Roger Browne - roger@eiffel.tm - Everything Eiffel 19 Eden Park Lancaster LA1 4SJ UK - Phone +44 1524 32428