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From: Sreedhar Chintalapaty <Sreedhar.Chintalapaty@sdrc.com>
Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language
Date: 1997/01/14
Date: 1997-01-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32DC1586.6201@sdrc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 773785382wnr@paley.demon.co.uk


I would say it was probably a bad _data abstraction_ decision.
A language merely _expresses_ an algorithm, right? If my _design_
fails to capture my requirements, can I blame the language? I 
guess not - it would be just like the Indian proverb - 'blaming the
tabla because he did not know how to play it'!


> In article: <5a77j5$3nh@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
> gvrooman@ix.netcom.com(Gerald M Vrooman) writes:
> I once worked for a
> large aerospace company where they implemented typing so strict that
> the real engineers were not allowed to divide pounds by square inches.
> It made it a little difficult to compute psi.<g>

 
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  reply	other threads:[~1997-01-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-08  0:00 ADA is the most worthless language Grizidy
1996-12-08  0:00 ` Joe & Kathy Taylor
1996-12-11  0:00   ` Robert B. Love 
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Dan Stubbs
1996-12-10  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-28  0:00     ` john babrick
1996-12-30  0:00       ` Gerald M Vrooman
1997-01-02  0:00         ` Mike Paley
1997-01-14  0:00           ` Sreedhar Chintalapaty [this message]
1996-12-29  0:00     ` john babrick
1996-12-11  0:00   ` John Strohm
1997-01-04  0:00   ` talarson
1996-12-09  0:00 ` John English
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-09  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-10  0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-12-11  0:00 ` David Taylor
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