From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: True confessions RE:Multiple Inheritance
Date: 1997/10/09
Date: 1997-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <343D1AF4.CEA@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680002709971113110001@news.ni.net
Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> Ada has been bashed for everything. I still haven't figured out why, but
> in every shop I've visited, there's always someone who thinks Ada isn't
> good enough.
Of course Ada isn't good enough: what language is? But if it's better
than
the language that the basher is pushing, I'll use Ada. I will still be
aware
of it's defects, and possibly know of more defects than the basher does,
but
unless I have a superior alternative on the platform I'm using ...
> (In fact, right now I'm working on a project where the
> designer tried to "simulate" inheritance in Ada 83, and the result is a
> bloody mess - a total obfuscation of the language.)
A general problem with newbies is that the try to write in "x" as though
it were "y". PL/I is a clean language, but some of the ugliest code I've
ever
seen was PL/I code written by people who were still thinking FORTRAN.
> So sally forth, and don't give up!
I don't know Sally and have never used FORTH <g, d & r>
> Matthew Heaney
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-25 0:00 True confessions RE:Multiple Inheritance Michael.P.Card
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-09 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
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