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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 12:50:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.digex.net!dca6-feed1.news.digex.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!portc01.blue.aol.com!news.gtei.net.MISMATCH!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCB3D5E.8FCE9C49@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++? References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:47:42 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003175310 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:48:30 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:48:30 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14576 Date: 2001-10-15T14:47:42-05:00 List-Id: 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