From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:53:48 +0200
Date: 2014-04-19T18:53:48+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5352aa1c$0$6708$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761m535e4.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org>
On 19/04/14 13:50, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> According to John McCormick's famous reseach paper[1], the most
> desirable features of a programming language are, in order of
> importance:
>
> - Modeling of scalar objects.
> Strong typing.
> Range constraints.
> Enumeration types.
> - Parameter modes that reflect the problem rather than the mechanism.
> - Named parameter association.
> - Arrays whose indices do not have to begin at zero.
> - Representation clauses for device registers (record field selection
> rather than bit masks).
> - Higher level of abstraction for tasking (rendezvous rather than
> semaphores).
> - Exception handling.
>
> And personally, I share his opinion:)
The most important finding that McCormick's list represents is that
they are *not* an opinion! The evidence is one rare exception in that
its production exhibits many traits of valid data.
The type system *is* actually better that that against which
it has been compared. It is not just opined to be better.
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2014-04-18 23:16 ` Heartbleed Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2014-04-18 20:49 ` Heartbleed Shark8
2014-04-18 21:07 ` Heartbleed Alan Browne
2014-04-18 22:56 ` Heartbleed Nasser M. Abbasi
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2014-04-18 1:29 ` Heartbleed Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-18 10:42 ` Heartbleed J-P. Rosen
2014-04-19 11:50 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages (was: Heartbleed) Ludovic Brenta
2014-04-19 12:46 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-19 19:17 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-19 16:35 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages (was: Heartbleed) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-19 19:32 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-19 22:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-04-19 22:35 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages Alan Browne
2014-04-19 16:53 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
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2014-04-19 17:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-19 18:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-19 18:53 ` Shark8
2014-04-19 20:08 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-21 13:06 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages (was: Heartbleed) Simon Clubley
2014-04-21 18:13 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-21 18:45 ` Oberon and Wirthian languages Shark8
2014-04-21 23:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-22 0:21 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-22 5:48 ` Shark8
2014-04-21 18:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-22 0:34 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-22 3:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-22 23:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-22 6:41 ` Simon Wright
2014-04-22 12:25 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-22 20:46 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-22 23:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-23 12:16 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-24 0:20 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-24 13:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-04-24 18:51 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-25 1:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-25 21:33 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-25 21:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-25 23:16 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-04-26 6:31 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-04-26 0:23 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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2014-04-26 6:37 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-04-26 6:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2014-04-26 17:15 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-04-26 7:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-26 8:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-04-26 18:32 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-05-08 19:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-26 7:23 ` Simon Wright
2014-04-26 9:27 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-04-26 12:34 ` Simon Wright
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