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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,99ab4bb580fc34cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe) Subject: Re: Q: access to subprogram Date: 1996/07/16 Message-ID: <4sftrc$q0p@disunms.epfl.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168494411 distribution: world sender: magnus@lglsun4.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe) references: <4rb9dp$qe6@news1.delphi.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff) writes: : Magnus, do you have a list of issues such as this one in which you : feel that orthogonality and usability were traded for the comfort of a : few implementors? A list? No. For the most part, Ada 95 is great. I'll submit comments when it is time for Ada 0Y (and/or I'll experiment with the source code of GNAT :-). An interesting research project for academic people would be to add downward closure to GNAT and measure the impact on the compiler and generated code; then do the same on another compiler to compare static vs display effects. Brian, maybe you know someone who would do that? :-) Now that the source code of an Ada compiler is available, where are the academic experiments? I think some improvements that were seen as too expensive or risky this time around would have brought Ada closer to the power of functional languages. In a few years the OO movement will be followed by another one, and it will be interesting to see if Ada can gracefully adapt a second time. In the meantime, our best path is to learn how to use the full power of the language--in order to create many usable, reliable, maintainable, and profitable applications. -- Magnus Kempe "I know not what course others may take, but as Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch for me, Give me Liberty... or give me Death!" http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Team/MK/ -- Patrick Henry The Ada Home is at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/