From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-05-17T19:57:51-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <300fd624-72a0-4171-90dc-49ad5df4fa21@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu2psqpj.fsf@nightsong.com>
On Friday, 18 May 2018 02:22:17 UTC+1, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Luke A. Guest <> writes:
> > The aim is to see how languages stack up. By using the standard
> > containers with their anti-tampering and other checks, you would be
> > hobbling Ada in this case.
>
> Ummph, the anti-tampering and other checks are part of Ada's safety
> which is its main compelling feature. If you turn them off then Ada no
> longer brings any benefit compared with unsafe languages.
You don't get the point I made. That "benchmark" is to see how fast different languages go using the same algorithm, without using any safety features. If you hobble Ada by including them, you will make people think it's really slow. It's not about the safety features. Do you get it now?
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-16 14:27 meaningfully/compellingly “advertising” Ada on StackOverflow Dan'l Miller
2018-05-16 14:35 ` Lucretia
2018-05-16 15:06 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-16 22:48 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-17 2:46 ` John Perry
2018-05-17 2:49 ` John Perry
2018-05-17 21:25 ` meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" " Randy Brukardt
2018-05-17 23:27 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-05-18 1:22 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-18 2:28 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-18 2:59 ` Lucretia
2018-05-18 2:57 ` Lucretia [this message]
2018-05-18 4:25 ` John Perry
2018-05-18 4:38 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-18 15:39 ` John Perry
2018-05-18 15:48 ` John Perry
2018-05-18 20:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-18 20:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-18 4:37 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-18 10:44 ` Lucretia
2018-05-20 7:54 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-18 11:17 ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-05-18 20:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-18 4:22 ` John Perry
2018-05-18 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-18 11:10 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-18 15:43 ` meaningfully/compellingly “advertising” " John Perry
2018-05-18 16:40 ` Dan'l Miller
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