From: jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon)
Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
Date: 26 Feb 90 20:55:58 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <209@puma.ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5563@crdgw1.crd.ge.com
kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>No need to apologize, I *was* thinking of FORTRAN, specifically
>that example, since we discussed it in particular.
Whoops, I though you were talking about C.
>But it is possible to make single character mistakes in C.
It is possible to make single character mistakes in Ada. Suppose I have
a loop named MISSLE_A and a loop (interior to MISSLE_A) named MISSLE_B.
I can "exit" a named loop, and screw up the name. Admittedly a contrived
example, but the principle extends to anything with a name (identifiers,
types, ...). Nothing in *Ada* prevents this, only the discipline of the
software developer.
C does have several built in traps (= vs. ==), but there are ways of
dealing with these problems at the developer level.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1990-02-20 16:13 Reasons for dropping Ada Ted Holden
1990-02-20 21:04 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1990-02-20 23:03 ` Reasons for keeping Ada David Kassover
1990-02-21 0:40 ` Clement Pellerin
1990-02-21 19:02 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-22 16:07 ` Mike Coffin
1990-02-22 17:01 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-02-22 21:51 ` Barry Margolin
1990-02-23 19:34 ` Loren Louis Hart
1990-02-25 19:58 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 12:45 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-26 18:28 ` David Kassover
1990-02-26 20:55 ` John F Nixon [this message]
1990-02-26 22:00 ` David Kassover
1990-02-27 18:55 ` Jeremy Epstein
1990-02-28 1:19 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-02-28 18:56 ` Ada functions versus arrays (i.e. () vs [] ) Richard A Hammond
1990-03-01 3:25 ` Alex Blakemore
1990-03-01 13:11 ` Robert Firth
1990-03-02 10:56 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-02 23:46 ` Scott Simpson
1990-03-02 10:42 ` Mike Harrison
1990-03-06 19:13 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-08 14:21 ` John Goodenough
1990-03-14 18:19 ` if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop) RCAPENER
1990-03-01 0:29 ` David Kassover
1990-03-01 15:11 ` Steve Tynor
1990-03-01 18:29 ` David Kassover
1990-03-02 0:19 ` Robert D. Houk
1990-02-28 19:51 ` Andy DeFaria
1990-02-20 22:21 ` Reasons for dropping Ada Jeffrey M. Schweiger
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