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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:47:42 -0500
Date: 2001-10-15T14:47:42-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCB3D5E.8FCE9C49@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk



Stephen Cole wrote:
> It makes feel MSDOSish rather than a modern language. Why is caselessness
> still concidered important in this day and age when memory is so cheap. Ada
> seems to suffer from rules that seem to be relevant to implementation
> difficulties rather than giving the programmer a consistent/simple view of
> the program implementation space. But I am just a beginner in Ada so maybe I
> am wrong. But I don't think so.

You have it backwards.  Since processors became powerful enough
to handle case insensitivity (like forty years ago?), the _only_
justification for case sensitivity is backwards compatibility.

And, although Ada does make allowances for implementation
difficulties, it's main philosophy is that most programmers
should be spending most of their time thinking abstractions,
not implementation.

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-15 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-15  8:21 Why not combine Ada and C++? Mike Meng
2001-10-15 10:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 10:36 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 11:15 ` Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 12:06   ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:21     ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 12:48       ` UPPERCASE is the typgraphical equivalent of shouting ;-) Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:54       ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! James Rogers
2001-10-15 13:11       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 15:12         ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-15 16:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 19:48             ` Simon Wright
2001-10-18 23:35               ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16  8:48           ` John English
2001-10-16 13:11             ` James Rogers
2001-10-16 18:10               ` tmoran
2001-10-17  8:53                 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 10:57                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-19 14:52               ` john mann
2001-10-15 15:13       ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 17:00       ` tmoran
2001-10-15 17:29         ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 17:38           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 18:01             ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 19:04               ` David Starner
2001-10-15 18:15           ` David Starner
2001-10-15 17:35         ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:18           ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-15 18:57             ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:46           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 13:32             ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-22  2:10             ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 13:03     ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-22 20:27     ` Kenneth Almquist
2001-10-15 14:39   ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 16:17     ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-15 16:35       ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15         ` Robert*
2001-10-15 21:27           ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:50           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-18 19:53             ` Simon Wright
2001-10-21  5:54               ` AG
2001-10-24 14:48     ` A UNISYS story Petter Fryklund
2001-10-24 15:03       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-25  7:37         ` Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 17:41   ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 18:27     ` tmoran
2001-10-15 20:24       ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 20:03     ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 18:42   ` Modern languages are case sensitive? Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 19:20     ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 22:54       ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 11:21         ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-10-16 11:42     ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-16 13:16       ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-16 23:43         ` David Botton
2001-10-17  1:42           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 14:36       ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:50       ` Chris Morgan
2001-10-16 15:18       ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:47         ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 16:48           ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 17:12         ` David Starner
2001-10-16 20:32           ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 21:37             ` David Starner
2001-10-17  8:39               ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-18  0:00     ` Will
2001-10-18  2:12       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18  2:32         ` Darren New
2001-10-18 11:32           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 19:47   ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2001-10-23  5:39     ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Hyman Rosen
2001-10-23  6:11       ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 19:28 ` Baugereau
2001-10-15 20:05   ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16  7:38     ` Martin Dowie
2001-10-16 11:44       ` Pascal Obry
     [not found] ` <01c155a0$7dd31b80$1b7af2c3@akzvbymr>
2001-10-15 20:02   ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 20:55   ` Adrian Knoth
2001-10-15 22:15   ` Eric Merritt
2001-10-15 22:42   ` tmoran
     [not found]     ` <01c15665$dc2e6c00$9b29e8d4@akzvbymr>
2001-10-16 17:48       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 18:04       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 23:01         ` tmoran
2001-10-16 18:51       ` Marin David Condic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-23 22:03 Beard, Frank
2001-10-23 23:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-24  0:02 Beard, Frank
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