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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,99222a5bd46ef3c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize) Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Date: 1997/06/14 Message-ID: <5nufle$d1q$1@prime.imagin.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 248371354 References: <5nn2fm$11dk$1@prime.imagin.net> Organization: ImagiNet Communications Ltd, Arlington, Texas Reply-To: smize@imagin.net (Samuel Mize) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff wrote: >In article <5nn2fm$11dk$1@prime.imagin.net>, >Samuel Mize wrote: >>I'm rebeating a dead horse, in order to write up a consensus paper to >>submit to adahome. I'll appreciate your input. > >I don't quite understand what the point of this is. I should have included these in my previous reply. 1) Many people seem to be getting a very biased introduction to the language. For instance, I just read a posting from someone whose CS instructor said that there is no good reason to use enumeration values or arrays, object-oriented methods should be used instead. Others are self-teaching as part of their jobs, coming from using Fortran or C or whatever. I personally think it will be useful to have some of the periodic and/or older discussion from comp.lang.ada encapsulated so that people who want to know can read the summarized results. 2) Since I'm trying to express a consensus of opinion, it's not surprising that the write-up adds nothing new to the discussion. As I said in my other reply, my main point was just to put a writeup somewhere so we can tell people "yes, that's a good question -- the issues are discussed in ". Nobody replied "This is all covered in XXX," so I have to assume that there isn't already a good issue-specific write-up to point people at. Sam Mize -- Samuel Mize -- smize@imagin.net -- Team Ada (personal net account)