From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe0ba9c989d41f19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Sreedhar Chintalapaty Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language Date: 1997/01/14 Message-ID: <32DC1586.6201@sdrc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 209849405 distribution: world references: <58f5jj$1o7@news.fsu.edu> <58j1lp$r0s@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu> <32C568EA.7B8@earthlink.net> <5a77j5$3nh@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <773785382wnr@paley.demon.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: SDRC - Ford Program Office. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) Date: 1997-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ SREEDHAR CHINTALAPATY 1555, FairLane Dr. Ste.300 SDRC - PIM Deployment AllenPark MI 48101 Phone: 313.317.6098 mailto:Sreedhar.Chintalapaty@sdrc.com WWW: http://www.ee.memphis.edu/~sreedhar/Upanisad/upanisad.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ Computers don't solve problems, they execute solutions