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From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada design bug or GNAT bug?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-06-23T07:30:54-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20cb0651-27ba-40c7-9f14-8d7a03390649@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58f64fa9-7d0b-44dd-870c-77d9afcb82c4@googlegroups.com>

> I regard the refusal to create a "class type", like Ichbiah wanted it

At this point, we all know it was a mistake and the experiences of the last years and revisions have also showed areas were things can be simplified and improved.

Perhaps it is time to rethink Ada not just add some more patches on and not worry about backward compatibility.

David Botton


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-20 18:55 Ada design bug or GNAT bug? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-21  2:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-21  6:47   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-22 17:39     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-22 18:16       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-23 11:00         ` G.B.
2015-06-23 14:27           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-23 11:45         ` G.B.
2015-06-23 14:30           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-02 22:22         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-03  8:02           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-03 17:33             ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-03 21:34               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-04  3:11                 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-04 12:14                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-05  0:53                     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-22 18:27       ` Shark8
2015-06-23 11:51         ` vincent.diemunsch
2015-06-23 19:55           ` Shark8
2015-06-23 13:06         ` vincent.diemunsch
2015-06-23 14:30           ` David Botton [this message]
2015-06-23 15:57             ` Niklas Holsti
2015-06-23 16:01               ` G.B.
2015-06-23 18:05               ` David Botton
2015-06-23 19:38               ` David Botton
2015-06-23 14:38           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-23 16:57             ` Vincent
2015-06-23 17:15               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-23 19:14                 ` vincent.diemunsch
2015-06-23 19:33                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-23 17:42           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-02 22:06           ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-04  1:52             ` Shark8
2015-07-04  3:24               ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-04 11:02                 ` Build-in-place semantics? (Was: Ada design bug or GNAT bug?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-07-04 12:15                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-05  0:45                     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-05  7:10                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-05  0:40                   ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-04 14:05                 ` Ada design bug or GNAT bug? Bob Duff
2015-07-04  7:46               ` Simon Wright
2015-07-04 12:00                 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-05  0:48                   ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-06 12:37             ` Vincent
2015-07-06 20:05               ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-07  8:06               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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