From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
Subject: Re: Elaboration_check For Instantiations
Date: 1997/10/29
Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34573CCF.4DE4@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Oct28.221806.2805@nosc.mil
> ..... However, I have
> never been happy as a programmer when a compiler says, "I'm smarter
> than you are and I'm not going to allow you to do what you want."
This is the argument many C programmers use against Ada. Those that
really understand C AND never make mistakes write working programs.
The rest spend their lives debugging.
If an Ada programmer takes this attitude, he'd better _really_
understand Ada--well enough to not misunderstand whatever
non-intuitive construct slipped past the language designers.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-23 0:00 Elaboration_check For Instantiations Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [this message]
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
[not found] ` <345774b3.1434102@santaclara01.news.internex.net>
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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