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From: cbass@visi.net.no_spam (Canada Bass)
Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C?  (WAS: Re: Avoiding
 the second historic mistake)
Date: 1997/07/08
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Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00
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On 7 Jul 1997 05:07:43 GMT, abo@minkirri.apana.org.au (Donovan Baarda)
wrote:

snip:
>>
>>> Ada 83 took 63 reserved words and 180 syntax rules to do what modula-2
>>> does in 40 reserved words and 81 syntax rules. The only things missing
>>> from modula-2 that are in Ada are generics, exceptions, and operator
>>> overloading.
>>
>>And tasking and unconstrained types and ...  This is pretty silly.
>>No, it's _very_ silly.
>>
>Modula-2 had tasking. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by unconstrained
>types, but if you mean unconstrained array types, modula-2 didn't have
>them exactly but it did have unconstrained array parameters. However, I do
>belive that being able to make a type out of them is a neat idea.
>
snip:

I am unsure as to effect of this post, but does M2 have true
multi-tasking to which he was referring to? I know little of any other
language that has a standard multi-tasking function. :)

Canada Bass