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: 103376,50ad4ada98045ba X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: A small Ada success story Date: 1999/03/21 Message-ID: <36f5511a.1615664@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 457309965 References: <119fb4e248%hubersn@lcs.wn.bawue.de> <7cp9cp$743$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36F0A77F.B0151962@rocketmail.com> <7crpn2$kt6@drn.newsguy.com> <921866918.613.55@news.remarQ.com> <7d2nvv$9f4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 922047031 207.214.211.237 (Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:10:31 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:10:31 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >constantly amazed to see Ada >code which very badly abuses exceptions, and uses them >essentially as an (out of) control form in a general way. If many people "abuse" something in the same way, what lesson should we learn? Is there something people want to do that is reasonable, but the only way they can think of to do it is by "abusing" a feature intended by the designers for something else, or are there just a lot of ignorant people trying to use fancy features of Ada in short-sighted ways? Should we be considering changes/additions to Ada 200X, or changes/additions to Ada textbooks?