From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: language design lessons learned from Ada
Date: 1997/10/09
Date: 1997-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <343D1063.5B2D@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: evans-0610971658520001@ppp13.s8.pgh.net
Arthur Evans Jr wrote:
>
> As a member of the team that wrote the Ada-9X Requirements Document, I'm
> familiar with that corpus. The data all existed in electronic form at
> SEI at one time; I expect they still do. However, that's not what I'm
> looking for.
>
> Perhaps I didn't adequately explain my desires. What I want is thoughts
> of those who were involved in the design process, now that it's over and
> there's been time to think about how it all came out. What is good
> about the design, and what could have been done better? What have we
> learned that other language designers should be aware of?
While I don't know of any repository of comments on Ada-95, many of the
suggestions incorporated into Ada-95 where vigorously debated during the
design process. The discussions of the suggestions should cast more
light
than the suggestions themselves on the lessons learned (or not learned
:-( )
from Ada 83.
> Art Evans
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-05 0:00 History of ADA? Uday Ivaturi
1997-10-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-06 0:00 ` language design lessons learned from Ada Arthur Evans Jr
1997-10-06 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-06 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1997-10-06 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-10-09 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-10-06 0:00 ` J Florio
1997-10-07 0:00 ` History of ADA? William A Whitaker
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