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From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada design bug or GNAT bug?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-06-23T11:05:21-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21a6fd6f-a58f-4d8e-b15b-0bf90fc9cc27@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cutduoF4tvU1@mid.individual.net>


> No we don't.

There will always be those that disagree and even I am not convinced that a "class type" per se is the right change today, just what was implemented was less than ideal and the result, is Ichbiah foresaw, cost the language in terms of traction when timing was critical.

So a rethink does not per se mean an embrace of former discarded decisions either, it means a fresh look. In today's market OOP matters far less and its hype vs. value is now balanced.

>The approach taken by Ada, like that taken by some 
former Scheme, is pragma Profile ;-) 

Agreed and those wanting backward compatibility can always have it in those packages needed.

Perhaps a simplification may even make implementing new front ends more reasonable an effort to leverage new tech GCC is not reaching and not likely to reach ever.

David Botton


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 18:05 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
2015-06-23 15:57             ` Niklas Holsti
2015-06-23 16:01               ` G.B.
2015-06-23 18:05               ` David Botton [this message]
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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