Re: Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada

[clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline)]

tmoran@bix.com wrote:

>>And just how did you attach callback functions to GUI objects
>  You are quite right for the Macintosh where the (Meridian)
>compiler supplied a binding to the Mac OS that used their way
>of doing things.  But event driven under DOS did not need callbacks,
>because DOS didn't use callbacks.  It just had a looping task that
>called things (as well as separate tasks for some of the audio+video).
>

I was delivering for various workstation makes, using X/Motif.
I guess portability is no longer important since M$ has shown us the one true
way.

I wrote
>>2. I find it faster to add events to debugger breakpoints when I find a
>>testing error than to add a bunch of gratuitious print statements
>>that I will later have to remove.
>  No, the 'print something...' did not mean 'insert print statements'.
>The compiler's run-time-system automatically generated those messages
>for any unhandled exception.  

Not every erroneous Ada program crashes.  Sometimes they just don't behave as
you expect.

> And (unless you turned off checking) ...

I'm not the type to turn off checking while testing.