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-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:02:16 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <6530a40c.0408240309.36f53e75@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.141 Message-ID: <412c2a53$1_1@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1093413459 219.95.193.141 (25 Aug 2004 13:57:39 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2982 Date: 2004-08-25T14:02:16+08:00 List-Id: Puckdropper wrote: > There is a saying when comparing programming languages: If you can't > think of one place where the language you don't like is better than the > one you do, you're don't it well enough to comment on it. > > Example: Ada has linked-list support (Access types), while Qbasic does > not. (To be fair, Qbasic is easily used on older computers. All you > have to do is copy qbasic.exe and qbasic.hlp to the floppy disk and you > can program in it.) > > Puckdropper Eh... Ada does not have linked list support. And linked list is not equal to Access types. One can use Access type to develop a linked list library. Smile :) -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m