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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,ea30c4e9c3d00b X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea30c4e9c3d00b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Ultimate Language feature list Date: 1998/05/14 Message-ID: <355B0767.35DE41D4@earthling.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 353227590 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6jcjqq$jl4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6jenth$8eg@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> <6jer8o$l98@top.mitre.org> To: Michael F Brenner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1998-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: This is where language appendixes are important: They allow one to define the standard form that features should take were they present, but frequently do not demand that all implementations support them. E.g., database semantics NEED to be defined, but many applications have no use for them. Michael F Brenner wrote: > > It is interesting that the original feature list is dynamic > (garbage collection, etc.) and as opposed to static, and is > therefore an ideal system to use for non-realtime systems. > Several of the features in the list would be unusable for > satellites that must continually fly for dozens of years. > ... -- Charles Hixson charleshixson@earthling.net (510) 464-7733 or chixso@mtc.dst.ca.us