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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea19776e3073a96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Samuel T. Harris" Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator. Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <38E3D0A5.4F93106F@Raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604549088 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38e148e2.5089627@news.shreve.net> <38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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!"