From: Yongxiang Gao <gyx@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/18
Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34EB634F.2EDF9B80@cs.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887723305@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Be careful to make sure that these papers that you have dug up (you might
> want to give references) are talking about Ada, and not about the now
> obsolete Ada 83 language. It sounds like your boss is trying to assemble
> a case for not using Ada (without particularly wanting to know anything
> about it), in which case, probably any old thing will serve as an excuse,
> but if you are genuinely attempting to assess the problem of complexity,
> you might want to make sure you have relevant data.
I'm afraid they are very old.
Two of them address challenges of Ada to formal semantics. One of them is about
Axiom Semantics, and it might be a classical paper about Ada.
One is about the grammar problems of Ada which makes parsing more difficult. I
think it's obvious trivial now.
The last one is about the limitation of Ada, it claims that the limitation of Ada
causes un-necessary compexity of the language. And it proposes removal of such
limitation so as to make Ada simpler and more powerful.
Actually, Ada is described as a complex language in a lot of places. However, most
of them just address one or two words, so that they are worthless for me.
I don't know my boss's motivation.
I forward you remarks on the languages to him. And he admits that the languages you
mentioned are all very complex.
Am I clear?
Thanks.
Yongxiang
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1998-02-15 0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao [this message]
1998-02-19 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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