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From: Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/14
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Herman wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Nobody need be scared of Ada.  It is just Pascal by another name,

It has some significant improvements on Pascal, at least as I used it
for many years.

> usually used with an overpriced development system, although the FSF has
> a perfectly good Ada95 compiler too which can even run on a PC under DOS
> (no need for Rational tools on Sun's...)
> 
> Once you have translated the following French terms to Swiss terms:
> method = procedure
> object = structure
> specification = header
> tower = make file

With the exception of Specification, these are not Ada terms. Ada uses
Object to mean an instance of a type, whether variable or constant, but
not as a synonym of the C term Structure.

I have always disliked the term Method, which I would define as
Subprogram.

> 
> and realized that even Ada has a goto statement, the mystique
> surrounding Ada disappears!
> ...

I wasn't aware of a mystique surrounding Ada, but maybe that's because
I've been using it happily whenever possible for 15 years.

(We'd prefer you didn't tell people that Ada has a goto. We don't want
people who like goto's to use Ada.)

-- 
Jeff Carter
E-mail: carter commercial-at innocon [period | full stop] com
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