Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.

["Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>]

jross wrote:
> 
> 
> Just a note about the RM95 -- who wrote this stuff?  My head hurts
> reading this!!!  Ouch!   :)

My sentiments exactly. I learned Ada reading the Ada 83 LRM while
floating in my apartment pool while off duty in the Air Force
in 1985. Having been something of a language design hack in
college, I found a great many episodes of "wow, that is exactly
what I've been wanting in a language" moments.

In 1995, I tried the same thing with the Ada 95 LRM and did
not have much success. Too many new things, too many new interactions
amoungst the new things and the old things. Of course, the Ada 95 LRM
is not meant to be tutorial material and I felt in no way let down
by the authors.

It is interesting how two documents from two different
sets of folks concerning basically the same things
can be so very different in style.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"