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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 08:16:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0A08E5.235EBA6D@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:16:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1024067789 66.75.151.160 (Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:16:29 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:16:29 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25945 Date: 2002-06-14T15:16:29+00:00 List-Id: "Alderson, Paul A." wrote: > 3.) Ada has no nice string handling capabilities. > (Yeah yeah yeah library XYZ does...is it in the standard > distribution?) Uh, yes. > 5.) The Ada language is based upon hardware notions such as integers > being a certain size and etc. Uh, no. You're getting confused with C. > If I want a number that represents the month in > terms of a whole value > would not the following be a better way: > > month : 1..12; > > Do I care that a byte or int is allocated? If I do > then I'll say so! > One might argue that you CAN DO RANGES, but my > pre-emptive counter point is > that one does not have to use pointers in C either! This is untrue. Every time you have an array in C you're using a pointer. > Meaning why does integer > exist? It's a name for what's called a "base type". > 6.) GENERICS GENERICS GENERICS > If the programmer used generics heavily and you must certify > to level-A you either: > A.) Test one instance and say the rest are the same > (hopefully) > B.) Incur huge verification costs. As opposed to what? > 7.) When all else fails - unchecked conversion - sometimes just > because! If you're doing unchecked conversions "just because", then you're programming in C, not Ada. > 8.) Unhandled exception in the library? Now what? You catch it and handle it, unlike Java where it won't even compile. :-) > 9.) Write to comp.lang.ada you'll get an answer there! - NOT! > 10.) Getting my marshmellows out! Marshmallows. > essentially gets you Ada type checking and great analysis of your code (even Err, no. Lint is not going to tell you if you assign 14 to a month. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.