From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Yongxiang Gao Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: <34EB6579.C791152D@cs.utexas.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326376210 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.utexas.edu X-Trace: news.cs.utexas.edu 887842169 8162 gyx 128.83.144.83 Organization: cs.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi, Guy I put the original mail from my boss here. What are you going to say? Don't show off too much. Thanks. Yongxiang Simon Wright wrote: > If you go to a newsgroup on Ada and (effectively) ask the residents to > provide you with evidence that they are foolish you can't expect a > totally happy response! > > Did your boss really say (in paraphrase) "Find me evidence that Ada is > too complex"? sounds very closed-minded to me! Can't see why one would > want such except to compare with other languages, in which case see > Robert Dewar's remarks. > > -- > Simon Wright Work Email: simon.j.wright@gecm.com > GEC-Marconi Radar & Defence Systems Voice: +44(0)1705-701778 > Command & Information Systems Division FAX: +44(0)1705-701800 Subject: another TA task Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:14:53 -0600 (CST) From: Calvin Lin To: gyx@cs.utexas.edu Yongxiang, Could you do another literature search for me? I'm interested in papers that explain why Ada is an overly complex language, why it's a hard language to write a compiler for, and other problems with Ada. Thanks a lot. Calvin -- Home: 1633 Royal Crest, Apt.1146, Austin, TX 78741 Phone: 512-912-0291(H) 512-471-9790(O) Email: gyx@cs.utexas.edu Office: PAI 5.54 Homepage : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gyx