From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is ....
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:20:44 GMT
Date: 2000-10-07T03:20:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39DE967D.9861342A@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A0622B6.C6B98E45@telepath.com
Ada's greatest feature is its excellent support for modularity,
encapsulation, and information hiding. Mostly that's provided through
packages (with separation of spec and body) and private types, but
protected and task types also provide encapsulation and information
hiding. I consider that one feature, though multiple language
constructs.
That said, Ada wouldn't be as attractive a language without generics,
exceptions, concurrency, strong typing, user-defined numeric types,
application-oriented parameter modes, sensible control structures, ...
--
Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2000-10-05 0:00 The greatest feature of the language is Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-10-06 1:08 ` Preben Randhol
2000-10-06 3:10 ` James Rogers
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-10-07 0:28 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-07 3:20 ` Jeff Carter [this message]
2000-10-07 5:36 ` jpwoodruff
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-06 6:56 ` Werner Pachler
2000-10-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` David Emery
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2000-10-09 0:00 Soeren.Henssel-Rasmussen
2000-10-09 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-10 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
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