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From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!]
Date: 1997/05/14
Date: 1997-05-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4246A4B40B889430.86D53DD9D8EF4040.C9B35F35529B4C22@library-proxy.airnews.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5laovr$l7t@bcrkh13.bnr.ca


kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) wrote:

>Today, I wouldn't think of designing a language without decent
>arrays.

Why?  What makes arrays more important that lists or maps? This wss one of my
pet peeves with Ada83 -- it provided very nice array support, but nothing
else.  This just encouraged mediocre Ada programmers to solve every problem
with an array, even when another structure would have been considerably faster
and easier to use.






  reply	other threads:[~1997-05-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-05  0:00 assign help!! Ivan Gou
1997-05-06  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-07  0:00   ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-05-08  0:00     ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] John G. Volan
1997-05-09  0:00       ` Jay Martin
1997-05-09  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-09  0:00         ` Jeff Carter
1997-05-09  0:00           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-10  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-10  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-13  0:00                     ` John G. Volan
1997-05-13  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-16  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-17  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-16  0:00                 ` Wayne Magor
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-18  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-20  0:00                     ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00               ` Ben Brosgol
1997-05-14  0:00                 ` naming convention: trailing underscore Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                   ` Michael F Brenner
     [not found]                 ` <dewar.863717431@merv>
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Robert A Duff
1997-05-18  0:00                     ` Underscores in identifiers (was: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) Ben Brosgol
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-16  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-20  0:00                       ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-17  0:00                   ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Arthur Schwarz
1997-05-17  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-17  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-18  0:00                         ` Andrew Dunstan
1997-05-18  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-19  0:00                             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-19  0:00                             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Aaron Metzger
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13  0:00                         ` David L Brown
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-14  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Kevin Cline [this message]
1997-05-14  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00                 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Simon Wright
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00             ` Jeff Carter
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-13  0:00                 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-13  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                     ` Do-While Jones
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` Stephen Leake
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                         ` Tangent to Religious naming convention discussion W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-15  0:00                           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                         ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                             ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-15  0:00                           ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-09  0:00           ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-10  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00               ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00           ` Doug Smith
1997-05-12  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1997-05-16  0:00           ` Wayne Magor
1997-05-16  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-17  0:00             ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-19  0:00               ` Doug Smith
1997-05-09  0:00       ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-09  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00       ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00     ` assign help!! Simon Wright
1997-05-14  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
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