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: 103376,43f65db68662a705 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-23 12:31:13 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admii!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Top 10 Ada myths Date: 23 Mar 1995 00:51:45 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3kr29h$grh@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <51286.pukite@daina.com> <3kc5ig$164a@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-03-23T00:51:45-05:00 List-Id: My perspective is quite different from Robert Eachus's I don't agree that the 1983 standard had lots of known holes I think the 1985 standard has more holes than he thought but in both cases we are talking about quite tiny holes. I think we will find that there are lots of small problems to keep the ARG busy. Most recently, I have been discussing the rules for inheritance of the stream attributes on tagged types, and it seems like they are completely broken. Just one small example. Here is another interesting question that just occurred the other day. What is the relation of the standard files for Text_IO and Wide_Text_IO? THey appear to be quite distinct. That seems to mean that if you with Text_IO and Widfe_Text_IO in the same program you have automatically an instance of file sharing, which may simply not work ..... ??? As I say, I think the new ARG will have plenty to keep it busy! dp