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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,253505146ffff940 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-06 20:20:45 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!logbridge.uoregon.edu!cyclone-west.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39DE967D.9861342A@acm.org> From: Jeff Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is .... References: <39DCBA28.E504523B@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <39DE0F1A.CA9AA9F4@ix.netcom.com> <86k8blkey3.fsf@acm.org> <3A0622B6.C6B98E45@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 03:20:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.178.185.244 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 970888844 63.178.185.244 (Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:20:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:20:44 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1045 Date: 2000-10-07T03:20:44+00:00 List-Id: 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