Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?

[shmuel@os2bbs.com]

In <dewar.848496377@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>well of course Robin thinks PL/1 is more readable than Ada 95. It's
>like asking a Russian who barely speaks English whether he finds
>Russian easier to read than English. Robin has made it very clear
>that he is not very familiar with Ada 95. It always puzzles me
>when people spend so much time fulminating about programming languages
>that they know very little about, but it's typical of the programming
>language field.

That sword cuts both ways; if you think that Ada 95 is perfect and that PL/I has
nothing to offer, I suspect that you either don't know Ada very well or don't know 
PL/I very well. In fact, I am suspicious of the qualifications of anyone who can't find
flaws in his preferred languages or who can't find good points in at least one 
language that he despises.

I find it interesting that you defended the charge that Ada lacks expressive power
by saying that you could always build an abstraction to encapsulate a subroutine,
instead of citing some of the areas where Ada has more expressive power than PL/I.
You accuse Mr. Dewar of being ignorant, but you have laid yourself open to the same
charge. If you tell me that your failure to mention certain features doesn't mean that
you are unaware of them, well, the same could be true for Mr. Dewar's failure to
mention things that he may not have considered relevant.




     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
     Systems Programmer & JOAT
     Atid/2

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