From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/19
Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34EC6ED2.15FB@hso.link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887853962@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> << 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.
> >>
>
> I would say that it is almost certain that the above words are written
> by someone looking to justify a decision they have already made.
Since Dr. Lin is a professor who publishes papers concerning
his own favorite language (ZPL), I would guess that the real
reason for the literature request is so that he can put line
like this into some new paper he is writing:
"ZPL is relatively easy to implement and use. It is
well-documented that Ada is overly complex with
numerous problems [4,7, 9, 12]."
And so the assertion would be "proved" by the references.
--
Stanley Allen
mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` 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 Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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
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 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen [this message]
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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