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: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-06 22:50:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ACEAA1F.E1BF6F@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work! References: <25%y6.2364$jz.201607@www.newsranger.com> <3ACDB29E.45B91316@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 05:48:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.206.196 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 986622530 209.86.206.196 (Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:48:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:48:50 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6606 Date: 2001-04-07T05:48:50+00:00 List-Id: Almost all of these features date back to Ada 80. Ada 80 blew just about everything else out of the water in 1980, in terms of expressive power. These special cases didn't seem important, when there were so many things you could do with the language that you couldn't do in other languages. Now we're looking back after 20 years. We expect a language to have the kind of expressive power we find in Ada (though few do), and these special cases seem jarring. Certainly if we were designing a language from scratch, after all this experience with Ada, we could avoid many of them. However, things could be worse than having to use Ada. Much worse. -- Jeff Carter "You empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper." Monty Python & the Holy Grail