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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Warts was Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts.
Date: 1997/08/05
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Date: 1997-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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Richard Irvine wrote:
> 
> For the benefit of the inexperienced and unperceptive amongst us (we
> also have to earn a living) I would be fascinated to know what the real
> professionals who read this newsgroup consider their favourite Ada
> "warts" and their strategies for dealing with them.

I haven't had a chance to deal with Ada 95 yet, but if you browse the
archives
from AJPO on the Ada revision you will see a lot of problem areas in Ada
83,
many of which have been fixed in Ada 95. Of course, new problems may
have been
introduced in the process, but I suspect that when I have a chance to
use 95 
that I will concluded that the language has been improved.

Of course, there are profound disagreements as to whether specific
features are
indeed warts, and you must always consider the language in the context
of the
available alternatives. I submitted a large number of change requests
during the
refision process, for what I considered to be serious defects and
omissions, yet
I would far rather use Ada 83 than C.

-- 

                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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